Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times
Rabbi Baruch Hecht and Storey Wertheimer, 6, place a candle on a menorah made of giant Legos at the Chabad of Brentwood. In Riverside, a menorah made of recycled wood, plants and flowers was used.
Jewish communities in Southern California follow a nationwide trend among religious organizations of environmental awareness.
Some Jewish communities throughout the Southland celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with a twist Sunday, as one group cooked a giant potato latke in a solar-paneled oven and another lit candles atop a recycled menorah -- all part of an effort to usher in an eco-friendly Festival of Lights."With the new president [of the United States] coming in, the whole thing is about the environment," said Rabbi Marc Rubenstein outside Temple Isaiah of Newport Beach, where parishioners in the frontyard crowded around the solar oven that was harnessing the sun's heat to cook a potato pancake, or latke, that measured about 3 feet across.
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