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Friday, December 17, 1999 | return to: local
JCC of S.F. is setting for Kwanzaa-Chanukah party
by More than 100 celebrants ate latkes, cauliflower and lentils at the third annual Kwanzaa-Chanukah celebration held Dec. 9 at Jew, Hosting the gathering was the Isaiah Project, an African-American and Jewish alliance for justice that seeks to improve relation
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With this year's theme being unity, Heather Harris and Julianne Jones explained the history of both holidays. A candlelighting of both the chanukiah and the kinara, a six-branched candelabra for Kwanzaa, followed.
Sponsors included the Jewish Community Relations Council, African-American Caucus Local 250, Marcus Books, Nayala Ethiopian Restaurant and Shenson's Delicatessen.
Kwanzaa is a weeklong harvest festival focusing on the social and spiritual needs of African-Americans and developed by Maulana Ron Karenga in December 1966.
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