EPIC CHANUKIYAH CONTEST | TBECLT Gateway

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VIEW 2020 ENTRIES

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Vote online from Friday, December 11 at 12:00pm to Monday, December 14 at 12:00pm.

View the entries on Facebook Live with colorful commentary on Saturday, December 12 at 1:00pm and Sunday, December 13 at 11:00am

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Winners will be announced Tuesday, December 15 at 6:00pm.

Tune in to our Facebook Live Candle Lighting: #ShinetheLight to hear the winners.

VOTING CATEGORIES

Category 1: Best Adult

Category 2: Best Group/Family

Category 3: Best Child

Category 4: Best Teen

Category 5: Best in Show

Category 6: Most Creative Use of Materials

Category 7: Clearest Use of Theme

Category 8: Most Beautiful

Category 9: Best Engineering

Chanukiyah Contest Entries

Adult: 1-12

Group/Family: 13 - 19

Child: 20 - 23

Teen: 24 - 25

1 - Robyn Benjamin

1 - Robyn Benjamin

Robyn assembled her Chanukiyah with trinkets from around her home, which fits with her being an antique/vintage furniture vendor.

2 - Janis and Joel Nathansohn

2 - Janis and Joel Nathansohn

Janis and Joel cut down a small cedar tree, coated the sanded pieces in polyurethane, drilled holes, and added nine glass bottles. The bottles are fitted with copper flanges and wicks so that this Chanukiyah can burn oil.

3 - Bruce Naliboff

3 - Bruce Naliboff

Bruce created his Chanukiyah using a 2x8 piece of lumber, dowels, glue, and candle cups. He painted it Carolina Panther blue and black. Bruce put the candles in a circle to stop the debate about how to light the candles!

4 - Rabbi Beth Nichols

4 - Rabbi Beth Nichols

Rabbi Nichols made her Chanukiyah on a scroll saw using maple and walnut wood. The quotation is from the Prophet Zechariah, the Haftarah for Shabbat Chanukah.

5 - Harriet Teasdale

5 - Harriet Teasdale

Harriet created her Chanukiyah using an illustration her late husband, Bill, cut out from a magazine in 2013. It includes clothespins, aluminum foil, paint, pipe cleaners, a carboard box, and wrapping paper.

6 - Brian Yesowitch

6 - Brian Yesowitch

Brian assembled his Chanukiyah using Kentucky Bourbon bottles, barrel wood, and glue. The honey infused bourbon is a nod to the upcoming New Year. Brian warns his Chanukiyah is flammable!

7 - Jean Moats

Jean made her Chanukiyah using a flat piece of wood, tiles, small blocks of wood, and glue. She also made books, dreidels, and a Star of David out of clay. The books hint that Jean is a librarian!

8 - Jim Duller

Jim built his Chanukiyah out of a textured wood board, wire, and other small metal objects.

9 - Sheri Stock

9 - Sheri Stock

Sheri used blocks of wood, paint, and the words “Our first Zooming Hanukkah” to create her Chanukiyah. Sheri connects this Hanukkah on Zoom with the special experience of holding her conversion on Zoom as well!

10 - Spencer Friedlander A

10 - Spencer Friedlander A

Spencer used his woodworking skills to combine wood, stain and copper piping into his Chanukiyah.

11 - Spencer Friedlander B

11 - Spencer Friedlander B

Spencer used his woodworking skills to combine wood, stain and copper piping into his Chanukiyah.

12 - Alan Gottheim

12 - Alan Gottheim

Alan designed his Chanukiyah by carving the image of Temple Beth El into wood.

13 - Winifred Nathan and Family

13 - Winifred Nathan and Family

Wini and her family created a whole set of Chanukiyot centerpieces using wood boxes, flowers, greenery, and battery-powered lights.

14 - Lewis Family

14 - Lewis Family

Beth and Jimmy Lewis created their Chanukiyah by folding many pages of a beloved Harry Potter book and adding an old NY license plate, a license plate made at the 2015 NFTY SAR Spring Kallah, half inch copper pipe couplers, and a blue socket for the Shamash. They describe it as bibliophile meets plumber!

15 - Friedlander Family

15 - Friedlander Family

The Friedlander’s love to craft together. They built their Chanukiyah from paint and wood. The small, decorative pieces were made from plastic, paper, and clay.

16 - Johnson Family

16 - Johnson Family

The Johnson family, including 5 year old Freyr and 2 year old Flora, created their Chanukiyah using a cardboard base and air-dry clay for the sea creatures and plants.

17 - Martha, Asher, and Nora Yesowitch

17 - Martha, Asher, and Nora Yesowitch

The Yesowitch family used found objects including a piece of a delivery box, dice, and stickers to build their Chanukiyah. Look closely at the dice to know what night of Chanukah it is!

18 - Stock/Lail Family

18 - Stock/Lail Family

Sheri and Haven used salt dough and paint to create their Chanukiyah showing the adoption symbol in honor of Haven’s adoption into their family in February 2020.

19 - Prosnitz Family

19 - Prosnitz Family

The Prosnitz Family used air-dry clay and tempura paint to create their Chanukiyah inspired by the Pokémon, Charizard.

20 - Madison Trager

20 - Madison Trager

Madison used paint, Styrofoam balls, sticks, and a recycled plastic cable holder to build her Chanukiyah showing the Solar System, which she is learning about in school. The sun is the shamash, because like the sun, the shamash is the main source of light.

21 - Nathan Minchew

21 - Nathan Minchew

Nathan’s Chanukiyah, inspired by the online game, Among Us, was created using clay and a hand-painted base.

22 - Freyr Johnson

22 - Freyr Johnson

Freyr assembled his Chanukiyah from cardboard and planets made from air-dry clay. He titled it “Planets.”

23 - Isaac Duller

23 - Isaac Duller

Isaac loves Chanukah! He used wood, colorful paint, and wire to create his Chanukiyah.

24 - Haven Lail

24 - Haven Lail

Haven wrapped modeling clay around a toilet paper roll and pocked holes for perforations to create her special Chanukiyah for 2020.

25 - Aaron Solar

25 - Aaron Solar

Aaron used bendable brass tubes, wooden balls, and espresso brown wood stain to build his Chanukiyah. It is held together by pressure and hot glue. Aaron is looking ahead to a future in design.