Peace will be the theme of a Chanukah event at the European Commission in Brussels on November 27 in the presence of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is also Vice-President of the EU Commission.
The event is organized by the European Jewish Community Centre (EJCC), a cultural centre created several years ago in the EU capital to promote Jewish culture in the European Union and its institutions.
The eight-day Jewish festival of Chanukah – the ‘festival of lights’- is celebrated all over the world from individual homes to the highest governmental institutions to illustrate the message that "a small light can dissolve much darkness." It encourages people to share their individual "light" with the rest of the world.
The traditional Menorah, the nine-branched candelabrum, will be lit by French philosopher and writer Marek Halter who will address the event on the theme of peace.
For the last seven years, the EJCC has worked in collaboration with members of the European Commission to organise the EuroChanukah celebration in the Berlaymont building, the Commission’s seat in Brussels. Peace will be the theme of a Chanukah event at the European Commission in Brussels on November 27 in the presence of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is also Vice-President of the EU Commission.
The event is organized by the European Jewish Community Centre (EJCC), a cultural centre created several years ago in the EU capital to promote Jewish culture in the European Union and its institutions.
The eight-day Jewish festival of Chanukah – the ‘festival of lights’- is celebrated all over the world from individual homes to the highest governmental institutions to illustrate the message that "a small light can dissolve much darkness." It encourages people to share their individual "light" with the rest of the world.
The traditional Menorah, the nine-branched candelabrum, will be lit by French philosopher and writer Marek Halter who will address the event on the theme of peace.
For the last seven years, the EJCC has worked in collaboration with members of the European Commission to organise the EuroChanukah celebration in the Berlaymont building, the Commission’s seat in Brussels.