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Ontario is scheduled to hold its second annual Menorah Procession Thursday.
The event, which is part of the city’s annual Christmas on Euclid Experience, will begin at Ontario Town Square, said Sue Oxarart, spokeswoman for the Greater Ontario Convention & Visitors Bureau.
This year’s festivities will begin at 6 p.m. with the lighting of the Menorah, singing of traditional Jewish music and a feast of latkes and sufganiyot, both foods associated with Chanukah.
An eight-day celebration, Jews celebrate Chanukah by lighting an eight-branch candelabrum, commonly known as a menorah “Chanukah is a joyous time and the menorah is a universal symbol of freedom” said Rabbi Sholom Harlig, director of the Chabad of the Inland Empire, in a statement. “The goal of this parade is to increase the awareness that light overcomes
darkness and [that] good triumphs over evil.”
Harlig will oversee the procession, which is expected to attract 500 to 1,000 people and an unspecified number of vehicles, Oxarart said.
Menorah processions have become more popular worldwide during the last three decades or so, according to a statement released by the bureau, which sponsors the annual Christmas festival.
Before the procession, participants place lighted menorahs on the tops of their cars, then drive through neighborhoods before returning to Ontario Town Square at Euclid Avenue and C Street.
The procession, which could cross over into neighboring cities, is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and last about two hours, Oxarart said.
