Calling all Kindergarten – 3rd graders! To celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, we will be having Rabbi Dovid Zaltzman join us for an olive press demonstration. Our workshop demonstrates, with the help of participants, the process the Maccabees used to refine olive oil for the Menorah in the Chanukah story. Participants sort and hand-press fresh olives in an old fashioned olive press made of wood and cast iron, then decant the olive juice with a modern centrifuge to quickly extract the pure olive oil – authentic “Shemen Zayit Zach”. As the olive oil is refined, the participants hand spin wicks out of cotton and then light the Chanukah Menorah with the resulting oil.
If there are any non-Religious School students that would like to participate in this program, please email Risa Wagner.
