Holiday events will begin

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Holiday events will begin


FREEHOLD - On Nov. 26 from 5-7 p.m. the Freehold Center Partnership will mark the beginning of the 2007 holiday season with its annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Monmouth County Hall of Records plaza at the corner of Court and East Main streets.

According to Jayne Carr, executive director of the Freehold Center Partnership, the event has seen attendance of upward of 500 people in past years.

Scheduled to perform at the event is the Freehold Township High School Brass Band and the Saint Rose Bell Choir.

According to a press release, dignitaries and elected officials from Freehold and Monmouth County are slated to participate at the program. Freehold Borough's mayor and Borough Council are expected to be in attendance. Monmouth County freeholders will also participate in the tree lighting, pulling the switch and illuminating the tree. Monmouth County supplies the tree at the Hall of Records plaza.

In addition to the decorated tree the Freehold Center Partnership will unveil its new and updated lighting decorations that will bedeck the downtown. There are new banner poles on the gateways to downtown that will also greet visitors with holiday decorations. There will also be new snowflake and wreath decorations on display.

Special guests of honor Santa and Mrs. Claus will also be attending the ceremony. The two will spread cheer and joy riding a fire truck through Freehold offering good tidings to all. Santa and Mrs. Claus will then return to the Hall of Records to sit and chat with children.

The Freehold Center Partnership will host its annual Hanukkah menorah lighting celebration at 5 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Monmouth County Hall of Records plaza. The lighting of the menorah commemorates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the rededication of the temple of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabee in 165 BC after the temple had been profaned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of Syria. The holiday is associated with the miracle of the oil. It is believed that the Jews had just enough oil to last one day, but the oil lasted and burned for eight days. Thus began the tradition of lighting the menorah candles for eight days as this mirrors the miracle of the holiday.

The menorah lighting will be presided over by Rabbi Kenneth Greene of the Freehold Jewish Center. David Amar, the cantor from the temple, will be on hand to lead attendees in holiday songs. Also performing will be students from the Freehold Jewish Center's Hebrew school.

The Chabad House in Marlboro will supply the giant menorah which is on display at the Hall of Records plaza through the holiday season.

In addition to the Christmas tree lighting on Nov. 26 and the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah on Dec. 6, other events include the Freehold Comcast Holiday Concert on Dec. 7; Santa's Train Ride on Dec. 8; Breakfast with Santa at Sweet Lew's on Dec. 18; and culminating with a new twist on an old event, the horse drawn Lantern Ride on Dec. 21.

For more information visit the Internet Web site www.freeholdcenter.com.

[fiberisgoodforyou]

"The holiday is associated with the miracle of the oil. It is believed that the Jews had just enough oil to last one day, but the oil lasted and burned for eight days. Thus began the tradition of lighting the menorah candles for eight days as this mirrors the miracle of the holiday."

at $3.00 plus dollars a gallon, how the heck did they do that?

[Libyan Sibyl]

fiberisgoodforyou said:

"The holiday is associated with the miracle of the oil. It is believed that the Jews had just enough oil to last one day, but the oil lasted and burned for eight days. Thus began the tradition of lighting the menorah candles for eight days as this mirrors the miracle of the holiday."

at $3.00 plus dollars a gallon, how the heck did they do that?

Fiber, the real miracle is that we haven't seen the menorah called "holiday candles."

[fiberisgoodforyou]

libyansybil said:

fiberisgoodforyou said:

"The holiday is associated with the miracle of the oil. It is believed that the Jews had just enough oil to last one day, but the oil lasted and burned for eight days. Thus began the tradition of lighting the menorah candles for eight days as this mirrors the miracle of the holiday."

at $3.00 plus dollars a gallon, how the heck did they do that?

Fiber, the real miracle is that we haven't seen the menorah called "holiday candles."

The word menorah just means candelabrum or lampstand- Hanukkah is a remembrance/observance rather than a Holy Holiday, thus Hanukkah was always considered a MINOR holiday.

Many "western" Jew's have been afflicted with serious "Christmas envy" so only since the last 80-90 years has Chanukah's become an "EVENT".

Do not take this the wrong way, but many Christians are victims of Christmas Envy too. The entire commercialization of the "HOLIDAY" season has caused the vanilla-isation we ALL are upset over. Dept Store Santa Clause saying Happy Holidays, rather than Merry Christmas- He's Santa for gods sak, what else is he going to say? And yes we hang Christmas ornaments on a "Holiday Tree", please.

Christmas and the "HOLIDAY" buying season is an economic feeding frenzy, and not a simple observance of the birth of your Messiah! This has started way before the fist Hess Truck under the Xmas Tree, or before "Its a Wonderful Life" or "Miracle on 34st" ever hit the Big Screen. Some time after Dickens "A Christmas Carrol" was first published, the birth of being a "Scrooge" inaugurated the modern frenzy.

Problem is with commercialization comes revenue expectations, so the "overly sensitive to the share holder-corporate executives" and his marketing guru's THINK that the vanilla-isation yields more traffic thus more revenue, because with commercialization comes revenue expectations so the "overly sensitive to the share holder-corporate executives" and his marketing guru's THINK that the vanilla-isation yields.......ect, etc, etc

BTW, how did the Borough "BILL" the "Tree Lighting?"

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a great Festivious for the Restofus

[Libyan Sibyl]

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[fiberisgoodforyou]

Cute!

BTW, another prospective on the "HOLIDAY" tree...is it possible that some knucklehead Marketing Clown thinks that the Market of available would be purchasers of "Holiday" trees widens if you can trick Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists into thinking that they too can "deck the halls" with a "Nondenominational Holiday" Tree

[fiberisgoodforyou]

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I would buy a tree there, ;D