“I think it indicates a generational difference in which young people our age don’t think twice about participating in an event that celebrates, publicly, our Jewish identity,” Eszter Fabriczki, 30, a regular at the event, told JTA. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)īut there’s something special about the Hanukkah on ice event, which is held at an iconic location with strong ties to the holiday period for all Hungarians. Judafest, which was held for the 10th consecutive year, draws thousands of Jews and non-Jews to the historically Jewish 7th district for sessions, activities and exhibitions connected to Jewish cooking, dancing and Yiddish.Ĭhildren light torches at the ceremony of the Hanukkah menorah lighting at a public Menorah ceremony near the Brandenburg Gate on Decemin Berlin, Germany.
In Budapest, the city’s summertime Jewish cultural festival is also an example of Jews reclaiming their place in society.
Organizers say the venue is important to them for symbolic reasons because it produced some of the world’s worst anti-Semitic policies after the fall of Nazi Germany. In Moscow, the popular Hanukkah on ice event, which began in 2012, is eclipsed by what may well be the largest celebration of Hanukkah in Europe: the annual gathering of 6,000 Jews at the State Kremlin Palace for an evening of dance and performances, as well as the bestowing of awards to communal VIPs. Like the massive menorah lightings, Europe’s growing Hanukkah on ice trend - which this year can be observed in Budapest, Moscow and London - also started in the United States, where it is occurring this year in locations from Wollman Rink in New York’s Central Park, to Houston to San Mateo, California. ($14 tickets available at slomotionfilm.People stand in front of a giant menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on December 6, 2015. After a dark time in his recovery, Nick got back on the board and is now performing tricks he perfected when he had vision. You and the Thing That You Love tells Nick Mullins' story-a skateboarder who has gone blind following an almost deadly MRSA infection that took, for a time, his will to live. What people don't know is his past as a physician, his journey, and his outlook on life: You only get one, so you might as well spend it happy.
He's the stuff of folklore, a staple of the boardwalk. SLOMO follows retired neurologist John Kitchin (aka Slomo) as he methodically and daily straps on his rollerblades and cruises the San Diego boardwalk in his signature style of gliding one-footed in a makeshift arabesque. 11 thanks to SLOMotion, Stoke Chasers, and The SLO Roll.įreedom of Flow is a brief but powerful film shot in pure vintage style that follows Lorenzo "Enzo" Chatman, who talks about the rhythm and focus of skating, being both male and Black and what it's like to be a nontypical roller-skater, and how the pure goodness of the sport can overcome the drive to always be chasing the next best shot to post on social media.
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