Solar-Powered Latkes: Happy Hannukah!

Los Angeles Times:

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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Comments

[grn1]

If the oven that reaches into the high 400* is able to feed a village of people with no resources and can clean water to save lives, I would hardly consider it a gimmick even if it was described as such by someone who understands the potential of solar energy

[Wildofski]

Don't be so self-righteous, this is but one way to get people thinking about environmental impact &
doing it in a festive spiritual fashion.

[sheila]

wake me when you have installed solar panels on your roof. this is just a gimmick.