Fire-eater Tyler Fyre amazed the crowd during last week’s Chanukah celebration in Old Town Square. Photo by Bonnie Hobbs.
Fairfax The City celebrated Chanukah last Thursday night, Dec. 14, with an event called “Light Up Fairfax.” The fun included a fire eater, jelly doughnuts, hot apple cider and potato latkes. Rabbi Sholom Deitsch, of the Fairfax-based Chabad Lubavitch of Northern Virginia, talked about the meaning of Chanukah, and
Tyler Fyre wowed the crowd by eating fire.
Braving freezing temperatures, U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11) and Fairfax Mayor David Meyer helped Deitsch light a giant menorah next to the City’s Christmas tree in Old Town Square. Then Meyer told event attendees, “This is the season of hope.”