Yonkers and Riverdale Chabads Prep for Chanukah at Home Depot

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Yonkers and Riverdale Chabads Prep for Chanukah at Home Depot

Levy Fox, 8, hands a paintbrush to his sister, Willow, 3.

On Sunday, the Home Depot on Sprain Road in Yonkers, New York hosted an enjoyable dreidel making workshop for about 200 children and their parents with Chabad of Yonkers’ Rabbi Mendy Hurwitz with children from Yonkers and other Westchester communities, and with Riverdale’s Chabad Rabbi Levi Shem Tov with Riverdale children and their parents. Home Depot provided free “workers’ aprons,” hammers, nails, glue, paint and instructions. From 2-4 p.m., children assembled a pre-made dreidel frame, which included two wooden side pieces and two end pieces, a bottom base, 12 nails, fine sandpaper, wood glue, paint to decorate and a sticker to place inside on which the dreidel can be spun.

Rabbi Mendy Hurwitz with David Moster and his son Jonah, 6, and daughter, Hannah Beth, 8.

Instructions included an explanation for the four letters: nun, gimel, hey and shin, their value, and how to play the game.

David Moster his daughter, Hannah Beth, 8, of Riverdale.

Cheryl Wohlberg with her daughters, Emily, 5, and Alex, 3.

Rabbi Levi Shem Tov, Rabbi Mendy Hurwitz and the Home Depot employees who set up the event and made it enjoyable for the children and parents.

Robert Kalfus has been an award-winning photographer and has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for news photography. Contact him at (917) 379-4165 and [email protected].

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