Come Celebrate!

Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are connected and because the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, they are occuring at the same time this year (December 25 and December 26, respecitively). Therefore on December 13, we are hosting a Kwanzaa Shabbat in San Diego at Temple Emanu-El.

San Diego's Black and Jewish communities are invited to worship together, then eat a delicious dinner (ft for vegans, vegetarians and omnivores!) while learning about the history and connection between Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Then....we will DANCE to some good tunes in celebraiton of our shared and collective resilience and joy!

Buy your ticket no later than December 6 by CLICKING HERE

Bring the entire family! Invite your friends!

Dinner /Menu

We'll have Shabbat worship service and afterwards, move to the Social Hall. Then, it's dinner time. We'll fix our plates and have a nosh. (Vegans, vegetarians and omnivores will have something delicious to eat! .

collard greens
cornbread
Ghanaian butternut squash soup
tzimmes
chicken (kosher)
latkes with applesauce and sour cream
Hoppin' John (blackeyed peas and rice)
macaroni and cheese
sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts)
hibiscus tea

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The Shared History of Hankkah and Kwanzaa
We'll do a short program where you'll learn about how Kwanzaa and Hanukkah are connected; we will light the 8 candles on the hanukkiah with prayer and the 7 candles of the kinara remembering the principles each prepresents.

Celebrate!

And finally to celebrate both cultures' resilience, determination and persistence in joy throughout history and in these days, we'll dance!

Get your ticket(s) before December 6!