It’s Hanukkah – Why latkes?

Without many days left in Hanukkah, we went out searching for the answer to a burning, age old question:

Why latkes?

Videographer Kimberly Paynter found the answer at the Germantown Jewish Center in Philadelphia, where the kitchen recently cooked up 500 of the tasty potato pancakes in one go.

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