SAN FRANCISCO – Hanukkah is officially underway with an enthusiastic kickoff Wednesday night in San Francisco’s Union Square drawing in several hundred to witness the lighting of a three-ton menorah.
“We stand up with light. We stand up with positivity instead of engaging in the darkness and negativity,” said Rabbi Shmulik Friedman of the Chabad of San Francisco.
“You know, it celebrates another triumph of the Jews over people trying to really get rid of us,” said Evan Smith of San Francisco.…