Ten students from Chabad N.Y.U. brought boxes of potato pancakes, a.k.a. latkes, to share the holiday spirit with seniors at Caring Community at Greenwich House, at 20 Washington Square North, on Monday. The students sang a few Chanukah songs, served latkes with homemade applesauce to the seniors and then hung out and schmoozed. While fried latkes are a well-known Eastern European traditional dish, in celebrating Chanukah, fried pastries called sufganiyot — like a fried jelly doughnut — are popular in Israel and have joined the menu at traditional observances. So, after their latkes, celebrants then ate jelly donut chasers.
