Friday, December 20, 2024
The Capitol celebrates Chanukah early with a Menorah lighting
Despite the world's tumult, there is a light this time of year.
Today, at the Capitol, we were there to see that light, celebrated.
Wyoming celebrated the festival of lights on Thursday, with its pre-Chanukah and Menorah lighting ceremony, as the community paused to remember the things that matter this time of year.
"Light always wins over darkness, freedom always wins over tyranny, and goodness prevails," said Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn," of the Chabad Jewish center of Wyoming.
In attendance were Gov. Mark Gordon, Secretary of State Chuck Gray, and Rabbi Yaakov Raskin of the Chabad Jewish Center in Laramie, and Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn of the Chabad Jewish Center of Wyoming.
The celebration has been sponsored for the last three years by Peaks Healthcare Consulting.
"It shows Wyoming solidarity with all types of people. To increase tolerance, to become a light to the rest of the country and how to behave," said Ahron Katz, CEO of Peak Healthcare Consulting.
The state capitol festivity offered Chanukah themed foods, and sweets, to help remind us to be the light, and strive to unite all communities and faiths.
"Each of us has in our own lives, many ways, in which we can increase light, and love and joy and kindness and goodness in the world," said Mendelsohn.
There were performances by Universal recording artist Shulem Lemmer, the Cheyenne Youth Symphony, and a greeting from Miss Wyoming 2022, Hazel Homer-Wambeam.
This celebration has been going on for seventeen years at the Capitol.
This festivity is one of the many cultural celebrations the Capitol holds each year, and all faiths gathered today.
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