Khanike Fraytik tsu Nakht: Hanukkah Celebration!
Fri, Dec 12
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
For this special Fraytik tsu Nakht (Friday Night), we invite community members and friends to celebrate a culturally-vibrant, peacenik Khanike (Hanukkah) with food, games, live music, and dance
Time & Location
Dec 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
The last Fraytik tsu Nakht of 2025, just days before the start of Khanike (Hanukkah), will be a Peretz party open to all!
Festival of Lights? Celebration of rebellion? Jewish Christmas? Miracle of the oil? Feast of fried foods? The holiday contains many fascinating (and sometimes troubling) meanings. At the Peretz Centre, our holiday event emphasizes the things that bring us together as a diverse community -- not militarism or nationalism, but peace, justice, and mutual liberation. With joyful celebration, we affirm our capacity to create a better and more beautiful world for all.
Our potluck table will be an culturally-vibrant feast, with latkes (sign up to make them together!), Chinese food, and sfenj (Moroccan doughnuts).
🕎 Bring your menorahs/hanukkiahs for communal candle-lighting
🕎 Candle-making and dreydl crafts for all ages
🕎 Hanukkah games and trivia for this deeply strange holiday
***AND***
🎵 Live klezmer with the musicians of KlezWest's KlezJam
🎵 Yiddish dancing led by Kol HaLev Performance Society
Friday, December 12th, 2025
Gallia & Ben Chud Auditorium at the Peretz Centre
From 5pm: Latkes-making and crafts
6pm: Potluck dinner and communal candle-lighting
7pm: Klezmer music and dance party
➤ How to Get Here / Building & Accessibility Information
Admission: TBA
The Baba Osipov kitchen team will be prepping the latkes and sfenj before dinner. Sign up in the registration form!
Remember:
NISHT (נישט) -- "none/nothing"
GANTZ (גאַנץ) -- "whole"
HALB (האַלב) -- "half"
SHTEL ARAYN (שטעל אַרַײן) -- "put in"
(Chocolate tokens will be provided)