A wide selection of menorahs are for sale at the Chanukah Showcase. Credit: Laura Weisskopf Bleill
Let me let you in on a little secret. The best place to shop for Chanukah isn’t at the big box store on North Prospect, it’s in Southwest Champaign at our community’s lone synagogue.
The Sinai Temple Gift Shop’s annual Chanukah Showcase is your one-stop shop for all things related to the eight-day Jewish festival of lights. (Disclaimer: I am a member of Sinai Temple and a Gift Shop volunteer).
Need a new menorah? Check out a wide variety, from electric to oil to candle, from $5 to $150. Out of candles? They come in many colors and sizes. Have a hankering for some chocolate gelt (coins)? Get bittersweet or milk chocolate! Want to learn a new game? There are more than a dozen different kinds of dreidels (tops).
Everyone needs a latke plate!
The Chanukah Showcase also has toys, gifts, books, music, wrapping paper, cards, party supplies and decorations. I know of some local businesses who are headed there to buy decorations for their shops, offices or restaurants.
Chanukah begins the night of Dec. 11 with the first candle, and continues for eight nights with Dec. 18 being the last candle.
The only bad news: there won’t be fresh latkes (potato pancakes) available. Those, you’ll have to make yourself.
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What: The Sinai Temple Gift Shop Chanukah Showcase
Where: Sinai Temple, 3104 Windsor Rd., Champaign
When: Wednesday, Dec. 2, Noon-7:00 PM; Thursday, Dec. 3, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM; Sunday, Dec. 6, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM; Dec. 7,8,9,10,13 10:00 AM-1:00 PM; Dec. 9, 4:00-6:00 PM
More information: (217) 352-8140
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Mr. Giles from The Little Gym was just here buying decorations!
I will have to stop by next week. Thanks for this information I had no idea there was a gift shop at Sinai Temple. I’m definitely getting my mother-in-law the latke plate. =)
That latke plate is too freaking cute. I guess I’ll be making a trip there now that I know. I usually order from Judaica.com for gifts for my sister.
I discovered this last year, and loved it. I bought a glowing dreidel thank hangs in my front window. I’m sure most of my neighbors in Mahomet are just confused, (“What’s that thing?”), but I think it’s great.