Khanike Fraytik tsu Nakht: Hanukkah Celebration!

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? Miracle of the oil? Winter Solstice? Jewish Christmas? 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 living beings.

Our table will be a culturally-vibrant feast, with freshly-fried potato latkes (gluten-free available), food from our friends at Lin's Chinese Cuisine, and handmade sfenj (Moroccan doughnuts) for dessert.

🕎 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 and Ben Chud Auditorium

Peretz Centre (6184 Ash St., Vancouver)

5:30 PM: Candle-making workshop for all ages (and latkes-making!)

6 PM: Communal candle-lighting, dinner, and games

7 PM: Klezmer music and dance party

➤   How to Get Here / Building & Accessibility Information

Please note: Doors will close automatically at 6:30pm. If you are running late, please make sure you have a friend you can contact to come downstairs and let you in.

Admission:

• General (13+): $25

• Kids (under 13): $10

No one turned away for lack of funds (choose the "community-funded" ticket to pay as you can).

Members-only ticket discount: Peretz Centre members in good standing (paid their membership dues after September 1, 2025) can use the 10% discount code sent to them via email. If you didn't get a code and think you should have received one, contact the office at admin@peretz-centre.org. Become a member or renew here.

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)

Image credit: Menorah illustration by Zuni Maud, printed in Guṭ yontef ḳinder (by Menasheh Unger, 1950, p. 81).