- December 15, 2024
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Polet Ohayon and Xiomara Sanches, the director of Rosen JCC's Early Childhood Learning Center, couldn't wait to greet community members and help them decorate cookies at Hanukkah Fest.
Rachel Nelson, 5, 5-month-old Ilan Nelson and Kristina Nelson decorated flames for Hanukkah candles that were added to a decorative board.
Camilla Antivilo and Daniel Antivilo finished decorating their cookies.
Idit Lotringer, left, and Ziva Kurlansik represented the Israeli American Council of Central Florida.
Ethan Ran, 3, showed off the torch he made.
Isabella Briskman, 3, dressed in festive Hanukkah outfits with her father, Zev Briskman, and mother, Mollie Briskman. Mollie Briskman said she loves going all out to celebrate.
David and Mindy Motola said Hanukkah Fest was a great time for their grandchildren.
Harrison Cohn, 5, Steve Cohn, 2-year-old Kennedy Cohn and Maya Cohn enjoyed going from activity to activity. "You have to love the free junk food," Steve Cohn joked.
Gavi Berman, Olivia Berman and Rebecca Besen decorated their drip trays for their menorahs.
Lily Motola designed her drip tray to match her family's menorah. She wanted to use colors that were bright and would pop.
Mila Benzaquen, 6, showed off the dreidel she made out of a chocolate kiss, marshmallow and pretzel. It wasn't long after she finished making it that she decided to eat it.
Aaron Feld, 8, made silly putty, getting the ingredients crusted on his hands.
Kylo Slaybe, 3, was all smiles after he perfected his crown.
Lauren Mindell said the Israeli American Council Keshet - Winter Garden hosts several good activities for participants to help them be a part of the community.
Ray Zikri, 6, left, worked on a crown with Orit Amoyal. Amoyal said all the activities at the fest was awesome.
The community came together for Rosen JCC's Hanukkah Fest.
Lily Motola decided to design her drip tray using blue, purple and pink.
She wanted the tray to match her menorah with bright colors that popped.
Motola said the dip tray will be useful when it comes to cleaning the melted wax from her family's menorah.
"I spent hours cleaning the mess from all the wax," Motola said of last year's Hannukah celebrations.
Decorating a menorah dip tray was one of various activities that brought the community together at Rosen JCC's Hanukkah Fest Sunday, Dec. 15.
Other activities included cookie decorating, making torches and creating dreidels out of marshmallows, chocolate kisses and pretzels.
