Chanukah

Chanukah Festival in the South Hills

Sunday, December 14, 2025 @ 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Dormont Pool Parking Lot
1801 Dormont Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15216 United States

Join the South Hills Jewish community in celebrating Chanukah! Featuring an outdoor Menorah lighting, Firetruck Gelt Drop, Latkes, Donuts, hot drinks and surprises!

Annual South Hills Lights Chanukah Celebration

Monday, December 30, 2024 @ 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EST

Join the annual South Hills Lights Chanukah Celebration! Yummy donuts and latkes, hot drinks, gelt drop, grand menorah lighting and more! Let’s celebrate together and show our Jewish Pride!

Tree of Life Congregation Community Candle Lighting

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 @ 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST
5898 Wilkins Avenue
5898 Wilkins Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 United States

Join Tree of Life Congregation for our annual Hanukkah candle lighting at the intersection of Shady and Wilkins.

Chanukah Festival

Sunday, December 29, 2024 @ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Bnai Emunoh Chabad
4315 Murray Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 United States

The CKids Chanukah Block Party

Sunday, December 15, 2024 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Chabad of the South Hills’ New Building
1700 Bower Hill Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15243 United States

Totally Epic Indoor pre-Chanukah fun for the whole family. Dreidel dash, curbside karaoke, kosher food truck fest, make your own glowing Chanukah sculpture.

Hanukkah PJ Library

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 @ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States

Wear your PJs and learn a latke about Hanukkah! Children ages 2-5 and their families are invited to join librarian Sam Siskind and Family Center Director Ellie Feibus in our Glick Children’s Library for an evening of Hanukkah stories, crafts, and food. Don’t forget to check out a book to read at home over the […]

Thank You for the Light

Friday, July 10 @ 4:39 AM EDT

Our Jewish community’s light burns brightest when we work together—to engage with each other, to help the most vulnerable and to teach about Jewish values.

Interpreting the Future

Friday, July 10 @ 4:39 AM EDT

This Shabbat we will read, Mikketz, my Bar Mitzvah Torah portion from 35 years ago. Joseph is asked to interpret to Pharaoh what his dream of seven fat cows eating seven lean cows and seven fat ears of grain swallowing seven lean ears of grain means. Joseph explains that there will be seven years of […]

Shabbat Shalom and Happy Chanukah

Friday, July 10 @ 4:39 AM EDT

Sunday night, the Jewish world will begin the holiday of Chanukah. Our agencies have been and will be “getting their Chanukah on.” I know that the Chanukiah(some refer to it as a menorah) will be lit in the Jewish Association on Aging and Riverview Towers Facilities for the hundreds of our seniors who make their homes there. […]

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