Palm Beach Gardens FL – A 15-foot-high Hanukkah menorah made of kosher salami? That’s what you get from a Jewish deli with a sense of humor, if not tradition.
David’s East Side Deli in Palm Beach Gardens will hold a public ceremony to light the salami spectacle at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah.
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“It’s going to be an unbelievable sight to see,” said Rabbi Shlomo Ezagui of Chabad of Palm Beach. “Head to toe salami, baby!”
The salami will be wrapped around a thin metal frame, topped with lettuce and bread, the rabbi said. Guests will be treated to free food and Hanukkah music.
If all goes well, David’s may try to get the salami menorah into Guinness World Records next year.
THATS A SHTIG FLEISH!
why wouldn’t he do it the last night when you light eight candles?
what a waste of food. the rabbi should be ashamed to be involved with this, while so many struggle to eat every day
15 FOOT SALAMI. YES THAT WILL BE SOMETHING TO SEE
BALONEY
which company salami?
Correction. While ezagui is a rabbi he is not a chabad rabbi he has a synagogue in north palm beach but is not a representative of chabad
I’m very much a “live & let live” type of person, but I’m having a problem with this idea.
1. Ba’al Tashchis (wating food)
Are they going to eat the food the put on the menorah?
2. Making “Chozek” (fun/disrespect)
It might seem like it’s a “cute” idea, but if we can’t (publicly) show respect for our mitzvos and rituals, how can we expect the “outside” world to show respect?
3. Stereotyping
The implication here is that it might reinforce the notion that “it’s all about the food”.
(Now you’ll excuse while I finish eating my pastrami sandwich and potato knish – washed down with a can of Dr. Brown’s Cel-ray soda!)
mer och. a rabbi
DID THE MACABEES LIKE SALAMI?
I’m no Chabadtzker but do you think all the money that goes into making all these Chanukah events are not wasted money??? Why not give the money to poor people.
I say it’s not watsed money its pirsumei nissa.
Kudos to such a creative Rabbi who can give people Simcha and a good laugh when the world needs it most and pirsumei neissa to top it off.
He is not an official Chabad rabbi, just look at the Chabad listing.
where do all the balloons go after a balloon menora loses its hot air?? just wondering
The mitzva of chanuca is pirsumi nissa . therfore every opertunity to put up the menorah is public will be greatly aprreciated .
CALM DOWN, EVERYBODY.
THIS IS JUST A CREATIVE WAY TO PROMOTE YIDDISHKEIT AMONG THE POOR LOST SECULAR JEWS OF PALM BEACH WHO JUST GOT SUCKERED BY A REAL BALONEY ARTIST.
You are taking a beautiful mitzvah and degrading it! Shame!!!
What’s the side with that – a shtikle pickle dreidle, ketchup and mustard gelt???
salami is flammable with all that schmaltz in it. they’d better be careful when thry light it.
Lighting a salami is embarrassing, it doesn’t celebrate or commerate anything. Surely something else with some worth or class could have been done. The menorah is a beautiful symbol – Salami is not!
Happy Chanukah anyway to Orthos and Seculars and any one else interested.
It’s so funny how you all are so troubled at this “salami menorah”. If it was a metal one, you would have a problem with it too, after all, it is in “public” how dare we offend our “gracious hosts”. So either way, you will never be happy. I think it is a cute idea and adds some humor, and gets frei yidden involved. who cares?
Salami, feh! Why not a cholent menorah? Or, maybe a kugel menorah? Make o menorah from something with a yiddishe ta’am – like shmaltz herring, or knishes, but salami – feh.
Lets get down to the important stuff: From who’s shechita is the salami made?