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 News from Around Banderas Bay | December 2005 
Puerto Vallarta Celebrates Hanukkah
 PVNN
Puerto Vallarta - The usual Christmas and New Year's holidays are even busier this year because Hanukkah and Kwanzaa (Dec. 26) coincide with them. This year, the first day of Hanukkah happened to fall on Christmas day, and Café Bohemio owner Sol Rosenshein threw the largest Hanukkah celebration Puerto Vallarta has ever seen.
Spiritually, Hanukkah commemorates the Miracle of the Oil. At the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days - which was the length of time it took to press, prepare and consecrate new oil.
Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is one of the Jewish community's most important holidays. The festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the festival's eight nights. But here in Puerto Vallarta, everyone joined in the festivities as almost 180 people gathered to commemorate the holiday at Café Bohemio.
Located in the Romantic Zone of Puerto Vallarta, Café Bohemio's comfortable patio atmosphere is a great place to celebrate special occasions. Standard dishes include good home-cooked Mexican and international food, but for this special celebration, the chef served up many traditional Jewish foods like gefilte fish, matza ball soup, challah, and latkes, just to name a few.
BanderasNews video journalist, Laura Gelezunas, gave the dreidel a spin and joined in the celebration to bring us this special video report. |
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