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Holidays
Celebrity guests light the world’s
largest menorah on sixth night of
Hanukkah in NYC
BY DEAN MOSES
On the sixth day of Hanukkah, the world’s largest
menorah was lit by celebrity guests.
The mammoth, 36-foot structure erected in
Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza was fi rst ignited on Dec.
10. The festivities have continued each evening, drawing
onlookers and special guests for all of the candle lighting
observances. On Dec. 15, the famed Guardian Angels
arrived amongst a whole host of socially distant attendees
to watch the ceremony.
Special guests John Catsimatidis and Sid Rosenberg
joined Rabbi Shmuel Butman in helping light the candles
by riding a platform into the night sky. Rosenberg, a famed
radio personality and co-host of The Bernie and Sid in
the Morning Show, used a blowtorch to relight four of the
previous nights’ candles while Catsimatidis, the owner,
president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods and
radio host, accompanied the Rabbi at the center of the menorah
where they both addressed the crowd after kindling
the Shamash–the middle candle.
“New York is the greatest city in the world and we have
to maintain it,” Catsimatidis told amNewYork Metro after
returning to the ground. The excitement from participating
in the lighting and looking down from almost forty feet
in the air was still fresh on his face. “You feel like you are
closer to God up there,” he added.
PHOTOS BY DEAN MOSES
Special guests John Catsimatidis and, Sid Rosenberg
lit the word’s largest menorah.
This holiday season will be a bittersweet one for Rosenberg.
While dealing with the hardships of the COVID-19
pandemic, 2020 will also forever be the year his father passed
away. Still, the radio host is choosing to look forward with
positivity, even going so far as to remark that this holiday
season could be the most important he has ever observed.
“It’s important for me to light the menorah because of
my dad. My dad was a very religious man who grew up in
Coney Island in Brooklyn, and we celebrated Hanukkah.
My dad passed away in July, and it’s been a very diffi cult
year for me outside of COVID and the business going
on in America and losing my father was a heartbreaker.
His picture is on my cell phone, and when I was up there
36-feet high, I took out my cell phone and I said ‘Dad take
a look at this.’ So my hope is that he is smiling in heaven
right now. So this for me is the most special Hanukkah I
ever celebrated,” said Rosenberg.
The Guinness World Records’ breaking framework has
been decked out with striking LED lights throughout the
trimming of its eight branches to honor the over 30,000 New
Yorker lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to
commemorating the year’s somber moments, this new addition
to an annual event was also intended to light the way to
a brighter 2021, reining in a more hopeful and positive year.
Sid Rosenberg and wife pose with the Guardian Angels.
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