The Chabad Jewish Center is hosting a community-wide Grand Menorah Lighting at Esther Short Park today.
Mayor Tim Leavitt and Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg will light a 10-foot-tall menorah at the 5:30 p.m. ceremony. A klezmer band is slated to perform.
Festivities will then move inside the Hilton Vancouver Washington for a “Chanukah In Candyland”-themed celebration. Attendees will construct a 9-foot-tall jelly-bean menorah and smaller marshmallow menorahs, fill dreidels with Sandy Candy, and participate in a grand Dreidel Tournament.