Folly Beach community to celebrate Hanukkah at Friday night event

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCSC/AP) – A celebration scheduled for Friday night on Folly Beach will gather people in a celebration of the Festival of Lights.

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jewish people gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah, a multibranched candelabra.

In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after a small group of Jewish fighters liberated it from occupying foreign forces…

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