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Hanukkah in Battery Park City

Downtown Express photos by Milo Hess
Downtown Express photos by Milo Hess

Hanukkah floated Downtown on Dec. 3, as local children explored the Traveling Noah’s Ark during a holiday celebration at the Jewish

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Heritage Museum, organized by Chabad Battery Park City. Most of the animals on the ark were props, but some — including a llama — were live and (one would assume) happy to be part of the Festival of Lights.  Rabbi Chaim Zaklos of  Chabad had a little trouble with the wind,  but he was able to light the nine-foot-tall menorah on the festival’s seventh and next to last night.

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