Chicago’s Habonim dancers circle the menorah at a Hanukkah celebration at Labor-Zionist Center at 6122 N. California Ave. in Chicago in 1958. One light indicates the first day of the Jewish holiday. (Ron Bailey/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago’s Habonim dancers circle the menorah at a Hanukkah celebration at Labor-Zionist Center at 6122 N. California Ave. in Chicago in 1958. One light indicates the first day of the Jewish holiday.
Jeffrey Bierig, 10, shows his brother, Steven, 6, how to light Hanukkah candles on a menorah on Dec. 12, 1962.
Dancers participate in a traditional Jewish folk dance after lighting Hanukkah candles for the Makom Synagogue on Dec. 11, 1974. The event was held at the Second Unitarian Church at 656 W. Berry Ave. in Chicago
Teen footlighters of Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center, 3003 Touhy Ave. in Chicago, rehearse a Hanukkah scene on Nov 31, 1966, from “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Lighting the menorah marks the festive Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The players, from left, are Judy Yaross, Harry Melnick, David Rubin, Ben Kodish, Joyce Zimmerman, Neal Rosner, Leonore Naxon and Joy Lieberman.
Melanie Goldstein, 9, lights the first of eight Hanukkah candles for her grandmother, Anna Crane, in the Jewish Federation’s Park View home in 1964.
Ross Kessler, center, carries a torch brought from Israel for the Hanukkah Torch Relay at 111 E. Wacker Drive on Dec. 18, 1976. The torch was carried to the Palmer House in Chicago.
Children of the Paley family in Skokie mark the beginning of Hanukkah in December 1969. Mark, 8, from left, Howard, 7, and Leah, 5, stand before the menorah while the oldest, Norman, 9, reads from the prayer book. (Steve Lasker / Chicago Today) scanned from print. Published on Dec. 7, 1969. JEWISH JEW
Children of the Niles Township Jewish Congregation, at 4500 Dempster St. in Skokie, conduct a candle lighting ceremony that symbolizes Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, on Nov. 28, 1972. The children are, from left, Michael Swedlow, Rhonda Bergman, Julie Swislow, Debra Engel, Eric Baer, Joshua Weininger, Kimberly Levin and Lana Kolbar.
Laurie Sachs and Barbara Gilbert cook traditional Jewish holiday latkes, a pancake made of eggs, potatoes and onions, on Dec. 11, 1974, for the Makom Synagogue’s Hanukkah celebration held at the Second Unitarian Church in Chicago.
Marla Lampert, 4, lights the fifth candle of the menorah for Hanukkah at Congregation B’nai Israel at 5433 Jackson Blvd. in Chicago on Dec. 19, 1962.
Mrs. Sara Zucker, director of Gan Yeladim, helps preschoolers David Wiseman, 4, left, and Ellen Klowden, 4, as they light a menorah on Dec. 19, 1973, for Hanukkah.
