The Lobster Trap Christmas Tree is a tradition that only a historic fishing community like Gloucester could pull off. This year, the Jewish community at the city’s Temple Ahavat Achim wanted to join the holiday excitement — and thus was born the idea for the Lobster Trap Menorah.

Phoebe Potts, director of the Sylvia Cohen Religious School at the temple, said the Lobster Trap Menorah is a way for the small Jewish community in Gloucester to “share their holiday lights” with the city.

“Santa kind of has this [month] locked up; it’s his gig,” Potts said. “This is a way for Jewish kids of Gloucester to share in . . . the season.”

The 14-foot-tall, 20-foot-wide menorah is made of 22 lobster traps, nine buoys that represent the candles, and LED lights. It will be lit outside the temple at 86 Middle St. Tuesday evening to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. 

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