It’s a Menorah Parade! Happy Chanukah!

If you happened to be at the right place and time last Sunday, you may have seen some cars go by that at first glance appear to be taxis but then you notice the candles. The Chabad Lubavitch of Wisconsin Menorah Car Parade touted up to 75 cars starting from the north in Mequon and south at Red Arrow Park in downtown Milwaukee. The latter group met up with a third set in Glendale until they all converged in Bayshore.

The 6th annual event marks the middle of the Chanukah season this year (Dec. 1-9) and was a perfect demonstration of the latter day desire to give the Chanukah miracle a more public profile and call for a better world. According to the Chabad website, the “menorah lighting was instituted as a publicity strategy: advertising to the entire world that G‑d makes miracles for those who stand up for truth and justice.”

It’s not just here — Menorah Parades take place with car convoys in hundreds of cities around the world. For our local version, we had our photo intern Matthew Dwyer capture some of the scenes and families who attended.