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While much of the province is getting ready to celebrate Christmas, Saskatchewan's Jewish population is in the midst of Hanukkah celebrations.
REGINA -- The Festival of Lights, also known as Hanukkah, started Thursday, but the celebration will look very different for Yaniv and Sapir Atiya due to COVID-19. “It's a very Jewish thing to host people like hospitality stuff like that. It's a big thing and usually we would have people coming over to our place to light candles or we would go to their place,” Yaniv said. “This year, unfortunately I don't think it's going to happen at all.” The Atiya family has lived in Saskatchewan for the past five years, originally coming from Israel. This year, festivities that normally wo...