The first iteration involved a 3D-printed menorah, and in 2017, they created an AR Menorah lighting experience.
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Both said that funeral services would be held at Menorah Chapels, later known as Menorah Gardens & Funeral Chapel, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Silver Tree Branch Menorah, $198For those who celebrate Hanukkah, this beautiful menorah will surely become a centerpiece over their eight nights of celebration.
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A 62-foot menorah erected in Indonesia in 2009 is possibly the world's largest, but Rabbi Butman said "62 feet tall cannot be a kosher menorah" under Jewish law.
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Alex Robert Ross gets the shit lit like a menorah.
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Drake: Have a menorah and tefillin in my next video?
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Pence then will light a menorah at the Western Wall.
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She took a photograph of the menorah and the swastika.
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Israeli insurer Menorah Mivtachim is UroGen's biggest shareholder with 13.2 percent.
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Menorah will hold 1.6 billion shekels in loans from the portfolio.
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This simple menorah combines gold-colored candle holders and white marble.
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" He added: "The menorah delivers a message of strength, of inspiration.
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Last year, the village displayed a menorah for the first time.
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Simcha Teich noted the symbolism of the branches of the synagogue's menorah.
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Pictured is the 2012 lighting of what's dubbed the world's largest menorah.
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Jewish law dictates that the menorah be lit around nightfall, he said.
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An official city guide claims it's the largest menorah in the world.
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The menorah was used to cast light as they rebuilt their temple.
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Obama was presented with a turkey-shaped menorah known as a "menurkey."
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They sent a messenger to go get more oil to light their menorah.
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Then kept the holiday theme going when she morphed into an actual menorah.
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The first time I smoked the Grav Menorah bong was in late 2015.
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We decorated for the holidays, with a little Christmas tree and a menorah.
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He's got a hilarious take on that too ... comparing Tiffany to a menorah.
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The menorah, about two feet wide, burned oil held in small glass cups.
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Popular this year is the Emoji Menorah from Rite Lite ($30), with each candle base wearing a different expression, and the Jewdolph Knit Koozie ($12), a bottle sleeve with a red-nosed reindeer whose antlers form a menorah, from Freakers.
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My Menorah 4 Chanukah also allows you to light a digital one for free.
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At sunset, Jewish people turn to the menorah to mark the start of Hanukkah.
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Lighting the menorah is a beautiful way to gather friends, families, and communities together.
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Menorah, part of MJHS Health System, draws heavily on immigrants for its 3,500 employees.
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Then he placed the lit candle in the top right corner of the menorah.
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The festivities end with lighting the museum's menorah for the second night of Hanukkah.
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"Tons of our customers wear them when they're lighting a menorah," Mr. Masarsky said.
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And on not being a convert (look, the menorah and Latke Larry are here!).
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It shows a seven-branched menorah, similar to the one depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome, and is believed to have been carved by an artist who saw the missing Jerusalem menorah in the temple before the Roman's destroyed it.
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This review was based on a complimentary Grav Menorah given to me by 420 Science.
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The professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, lit the university's menorah on Sunday, according to NBC New York.
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"This menorah is luxe with its marble stone base and striking sleek silhouette," Hopp said.
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Two necklaces glittered on his chest; one, a Hebrew menorah, the other, a Jesus medallion.
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In 1975 he financed the building of a public menorah in San Francisco's Union Square.
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There&aposs also an annual National Menorah Lighting on the lawn of the White House.
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The menorah lighting was held on the Ellipse, a lawn south of the White House.
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It was the first time a menorah lighting was held in the White House residence.
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Most historians believe the Jerusalem menorah was lost in the Vandal's Sack of Rome in 455.
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Other Menorah staffers brought to this country as children, now DACA recipients, also remain in limbo.
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That's the height of the menorah that will be lit on Sunday around 234:26 p.m.
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To meet the demand, they're conjuring up a brand new confection called the menorah ripple doughnut.
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A delegation of rabbis brought President Ronald Reagan a menorah during a Hanukkah visit in 1984.
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They incorporate latkes and a menorah into their festivities and teach Joel to deck the halls.
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The family was known in their community for lighting menorah candles during Hanukkah, the news outlet reports.
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Menorah Deluxe costs $1.99 and lets you customize the candle color in addition to a burn duration.
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Having smoked all eight bowls of the menorah, I feel closer to my heritage than ever before.
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Wanda showed me his room, where I was astonished to see a menorah next to his bed.
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Hundreds of spectators gathered to see the gold-painted, 4,000-pound menorah, undeterred by a light rain.
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For 51 weeks of the year, the menorah belongs to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
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According to some scholars, the menorah remained in Rome until the Vandals looted the city in 455.
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Believers in this and other myths surrounding the menorah, he said, "will be greatly disappointed, I hope."
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President George W. Bush was the first to hold a menorah lighting inside the White House residence.
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Jets of flame from a massive gold menorah punctuate rapid-fire rhymes about guns, drugs and money.
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Menorah candles, chocolate gelt and dreidels were not to be found in our small town in Indiana.
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The White House hasn&apost always marked the Festival of Lights with menorah lightings and musical performances.
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Finally, they'll stand before a glittering menorah which they'll light with the help of their VR handsets.
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Turn them down as you light the tree or Menorah, or as you count down the New Year.
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A big tree might catch your eye, or maybe a menorah, and probably Santa Claus and some elves.
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Available for iOS and Android, My Menorah 4 Chanukah, is a fully interactive experience to celebrate the holiday.
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A video of passers-by lifting the toppled menorah has gone viral, with over 26,600 views on Twitter.
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This set comes with cutters in the shape of a dreidel, a menorah, and a Star of David.
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If you're looking for him, just check near the Christmas tree and the menorah in the state Capitol.
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Hanukkah: The lighting of a 4,000-pound menorah in Midtown cut through the darkness of rising anti-Semitism.
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In 1932, just before Hitler's rise to power, their menorah shone brightly for all their neighbors to see.
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But each year, right before Hanukkah, the family takes the menorah back and puts it to good use.
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The National Menorah is 30 feet tall and requires a cherry picker to reach high enough to light.
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When he began imagining his menorah, he said, all he could think about was his grandmother's almond cookies.
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Pink celebrated Hanukkah with loved ones, taking to Instagram to show off her beautiful Menorah with burning candles.
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Arabella Kushner, the president's granddaughter, lit the menorah in 2017 with her parents, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
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The museum commissions a contemporary artist to design a new, large-scale menorah for the festival every year.
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"For the menorah, it's eight days and you're out," said Steven D. Sladkus, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.
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Cut it in half, and the ends of the doughy semicircles resemble the eight candles of a menorah.
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Neighbors told New York's Daily News the family used oil to light a large menorah in their living room.
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The monument stands between a Christmas tree and menorah, depicting a snake wrapped around a forearm clutching an apple.
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Remember, if you don't want to download stickers, Android, and iOS have a built-in menorah emoji: 🕎.
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The sculpture joins a nativity scene to commemorate Christmas and a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah in the statehouse rotunda.
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Eleven officers participated in the menorah-lighting ceremony at Chabad of Roslyn on Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah.
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Bob also makes the seven-branched menorah, a symbol that appears on the emblem of the State of Israel.
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Block parties, wine socials and Christmas tree and menorah lightings are among the events sponsored by the Civic Association.
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With a red lighter, Mr. Greenfeld touched a flame to light the candle in the center of the menorah.
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After each performance, the museum will celebrate the fourth night of Hanukkah with more songs and a menorah lighting.
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In 2013, then-10-year-old Asher Weintraub invented a "menurkey," a menorah in the shape of a turkey.
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Hanukkah is such a big deal in America — there's a menorah lighting on the National Mall, for Pete's sake!
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We made one final stop, this one at a stone memorial topped with a menorah and the Star of David.
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Barnes' pieces are not exactly functional, except for perhaps a butt menorah, and that's only for eight nights a year.
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"The Mayor's Office considers the toppling of the menorah as an act of hatred," McGovern said, according to the Globe.
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"We feel it's a First Amendment issue, we have other displays there -- a Hanukkah menorah and Nativity scene," Drucker said.
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The word "menorah" actually refers to the candelabra with seven branches that was lit in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem.
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Since Mr. Rosenthal told friends he was making a menorah and the exhibition opened, the requests have been coming in.
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Lighting a menorah also does not render us unable to put up holiday lights (yep, still talking about Joel here).
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You may have heard Hanukkah referred to as "The Festival of Lights" and might already be familiar with a menorah.
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Despite using a meager amount of oil, the menorah stayed alight for all eight days: the miracle that Hanukkah celebrates.
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The Kol Zimra a cappella choir performed at a menorah lighting ceremony before the White House Hanukkah reception in 2004.
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A second public display a block from the courthouse featured a menorah, a Christmas tree and a sign honoring Liberty.
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Menorah lightings will follow on Tuesday at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn and Mosholu Montefiore Community Center in the Bronx.
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Under the leadership of the police chief and a newspaper editor, paper cutouts of a menorah were made widely available.
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How are these people going to find a brand-new hookup while everyone is singing Christmas carols or lighting the menorah?
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He roamed right field wearing Gucci shades, a Menorah chain, and his Hebrew name, Yehohshaphat, on the back of his jersey.
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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who danced and helped light the menorah on Sunday, has in her own life identified as Catholic.
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The National Menorah lit in Washington, DC, is 30 feet tall and requires a lift from a cherry picker to light.
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Graham's office was firebombed soon afterward; the exhibition includes a melted telephone and a charred model of the Union Square menorah.
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On Sunday evening, a small silver menorah and boxes of doughnuts sat on a folding table in front of the market.
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It helped to take out the menorah and pop one candle at the center and one on the far left side.
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Children from local schools and synagogues were welcomed into the Oval Office to light the menorah and play dreidel with Clinton.
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Outside the White House, menorah lightings are still held on the Ellipse, and the event has continued to grow in scale.
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The menorah will sparkle every night for the next eight days, and the nightly celebrations include music, singing and warm latkes.
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We ate latkes, passed the Shamash around my dining room table so we could each light a candle on the menorah.
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"I went to Sunday school, I celebrate Hanukkah with our little electric menorah, but I'm not really religious," I told him.
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Menorah - Chanukah (also iOS) is more of a how-to guide for lighting the candles, including a visualization of where to start.
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Police are investigating reports from witnesses who say they saw two men topple a menorah on university grounds before fleeing the scene.
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Jewish people commemorate the Maccabees' victory during Hannukah by lighting a menorah for eight nights and with fried foods made with oil.
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The menorah symbolizes the strength and continuity of our nation, the idea that it is strong and will conquer all its enemies.
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The menorah lit by the Maccabees in the ancient Temple had seven branches — three on each side and one in the middle.
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Emotional residents gathered for a menorah-lighting ceremony at the kosher market where three people were killed in an anti-Semitic attack.
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In preparing the Temple, the faithful found only enough oil to light the menorah for one night, but it lasted for eight.
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Yeshiva school students dance after the menorah lighting outside of the City-County Building for the fifth night of Hanukkah on Dec.
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She kicked up her feet in zero-gravity and snapped this photo of her menorah-peppered socks from the International Space Station.
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Highlights include tours of the MFA's trove of Judaica and Jewish art and a community-lighting ceremony with an artist-designed menorah.
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The National Menorah, where Hanukkah candles are lit in a televised ceremony (like a Christmas tree lighting) stands at the men's section.
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It will include about 130 menorah or depictions of them in paintings, ancient gravestones and sculptures, and mediaeval and Renaissance illustrations and manuscripts.
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It is unclear how the fire started, but Nigro told the outlet it's a "possibility" the menorah played a role in the blaze.
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Several large flags sway over my head, with designs including the famous menorah symbol of Beitar Jerusalem and Zev Jabotinsky drinking a beer.
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On Sunday evening, the shamash was lit by Ron Agam, the son of Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor who designed the giant menorah.
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Mothers looked over dolls and trinkets at nearby Toys 2150 U, which had hung a Hanukkah menorah made of Legos in the window.
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Op-Ed Contributor Tonight, and for the next seven nights, millions of Jews around the world will light a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah.
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In Kiel, Germany, in 1932, Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner and his wife, Rachel, lit the menorah and placed it on their window sill.
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It looks very similar to a menorah with eight prongs, but has a ninth candle, the Shamash, used to light the other candles.
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She kept in her possession the prayer book and a menorah, which played the Israeli national anthem, until she died a year later.
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If you're looking for a way to celebrate, you can attend menorah lightings at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn at 5:30 p.m.
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Along the winding Pacific Coast Highway, the glint of the large, silver menorah looming far off in the green hills has always been visible.
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A relief on his victory arch in Rome, which still stands, shows the Jerusalem menorah and other war trophies being carried in a parade.
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The St. Regis Aspen holds a daily public Menorah lighting and even serves latkes and other complimentary treats on the last day of Hanukkah.
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I spoke by phone with the Posners' great-grandson, Akiva Baruch Mansbach, who was named for Rabbi Posner and lights the menorah every year.
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Jewish people commemorate the Maccabees&apos victory and the miracle of the oil by lighting a menorah for eight nights and eating fried foods.
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The menorah was lit in the Booksellers room on the ground floor, and a kosher buffet was served upstairs, the New York Times reported.
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"Tonight, for the first time in American history, the Hanukkah menorah will be lit at the White House residence," Bush said at the ceremony.
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Seasonal joy: On Flatbush Avenue, down by the Marine Parkway Bridge in Brooklyn, I saw a Jeep with a menorah affixed to its roof.
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In the commercial, a couple is quietly lighting their menorah when they're interrupted by a display of lights across the street you can't un-see.
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She was also a gingerbread woman, menorah and an actual candy cane at some point throughout the episode, making her the reigning Christmas style champ.
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If you're willing to shell out 99 cents, Smart Menorah for iOS includes stellar graphics, a countdown timer, and the blessings one chants while lighting.
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Several police officers who responded to the October synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh honored the victims of the attack by lighting a menorah on Long Island.
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The city has also seen record-breaking Hanukkah commemorations, such as the lighting of a massive menorah in both Brooklyn and Manhattan's Grand Army Plazas.
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That year, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg illuminated the 32-foot-high menorah at the front of Grand Army Plaza in Central Park.
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The giant menorah, which shined bright against the dark fog that blanketed Central Park, has been lit hundreds of times by rabbis, mayors and governors.
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"Everybody is hurting now," said Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, the director of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, which first put up the menorah four decades ago.
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While the historical and cultural importance of the menorah from the temple in Jerusalem is central to the exhibition, its physical absence is equally significant.
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Although most people use the word menorah in the context of Hanukkah, what observers are actually lighting is called a hanukkiah (ha-noo-kee-ah).
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There are now two official Hanukkah receptions, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, plus a National Menorah Lighting outside the White House.
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A gold money clip decorated with a Jewish star and menorah that belonged to comedian Jerry Lewis will also be up for sale, Greenstein said.
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"We agree that the crèche display has that unconstitutional effect, but reverse the Court of Appeals' judgment regarding the menorah display," said Justice Harry Blackmun.
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To Lightstone, Hanukkah is all about being proud of Jewish history and identity; traditionally, Jews place the Menorah in the window, for everyone to see.
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For her menorah, titled "Persist and Rise from Ashes," artist Caron Tabb printed poems and citations on fabrics and illuminated them to create sculptural flames.
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The menorah ripple is four doughnuts of increasing sizes, fitted snugly within each other, with the largest having the circumference of a typical pizza pie.
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It was the sixth night of Hanukkah, and in a front room of the Azan family's three-story Brooklyn home was an oil-burning menorah.
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Also in December, a fire lit by an oil-burning Menorah claimed a mother and three of her children during Hanukkah in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
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The only theological obligation on Hanukkah is lighting the candles on the menorah for each of the holiday's eight nights — the centerpiece of the holiday.
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Ms. Robinson, who is black, says her daughter now knows about Hanukkah, understands what a menorah is and knows the difference between being Pakistani and Chinese.
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Children may take special interest in the white ceramic "menurkey"—a menorah shaped like a turkey—designed, in 2013, by a nine-year-old New Yorker.
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Many lawmakers took to social media to share messages marking the first night of the holiday, sharing images displaying a menorah or dreidel in their tweets.
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As tradition has it, when the Holy Temple was being rededicated and its golden menorah lit, there was only enough oil to last for one day.
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The Talmud contains detailed guidelines of how to publicize the miracle, with extensive commentary on where the menorah would be most visible to people walking by.
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What follows is a dense and discursive look at the history of the menorah as a symbol, using the Arch of Titus version as a leitmotif.
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President Jimmy Carter was the first president to recognize Hanukkah with a menorah lighting in 1979 on the Ellipse, a lawn south of the White House.
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I'm always so lit up (yes that's a menorah reference) by emails I get sharing all the bars and restaurants that are themed for the holidays.
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But Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, one of the organizers of a menorah lighting at the market on Sunday, at the start of Hanukkah, had a hopeful message.
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Guests will schmooze, eat latkes (fried potato pancakes), and light the ceremonial Menorah (a nine-pronged ritual candelabra) like they would at any other Hanukkah party.
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Below, along a creek and tucked back into a sycamore-filled canyon, only the dining hall, two cabins, an office, and a wooden menorah are still standing.
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The site shared some of its top pinned Hanukkah recipes so we can mix things up with a waffle menorah or some doughnut pull-apart bread.1.
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"The light of the menorah reminds us that when the forces of light and good encounter darkness and hate, without fail light will always prevail," Konikov said.
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Police also learned recently that a sign and outdoor menorah display at the Lubavitch Center Upper Montgomery County, at 11520 Darnestown Rd. in Gaithersburg, had been vandalized.
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"I put this out here because I knew you were coming," Harry Reid, the former Senate leader, said, pointing to a large gold menorah on his desk.
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Shloime Rottenberg, the son of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, had just finished the ceremony of lighting the menorah at his father's home when the attack started, Gancz said.
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Some accounts assert that the menorah was destroyed in a fire; others say that it was taken to Carthage and then on to Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul.
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From Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher to Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas, here are six celebrity couples who break out the menorah and decorate a Christmas tree.
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A reminder as you gather, shop, feast, wassail and rock around the Christmas tree (or the menorah or kinara): The holidays aren't a fun time for everyone.
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In the sketch above for The Late Late Show, James Corden, Zach Braff, Charlie Puth, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Josh Peck form the boyband Boyz II Menorah.
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President Jimmy Carter was the first president to light a menorah in 1979, and the first official White House Hanukkah party didn&apost take place until 2001.
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Three years later, New York City's first large public menorah was erected and lit up on 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in front of the Plaza hotel.
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In the living room, pictures of Mr. Foxman with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michelle Obama sit on a mantel next to family photos and a silver menorah.
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Rabbi Jeffrey Myers watches the installation of a menorah outside the Tree of Life synagogue before holding a celebration on the first night of Hanukkah on Dec. 2.
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" Rallied by the applause, Netanyahu took the opportunity to exceed his remit: "Even today some seek to extinguish the menorah, to extinguish the light that erupts from Zion.
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"We can take a lesson that this is the Tree of Life Synagogue and the Menorah, significantly, has its branches that branch outwards, not inwards," he told KDKA.
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In addition to lighting the menorah and turning our dreidels, it's become something of a tradition in Jewish circles to give gifts to friends and family on Hanukkah.
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The menorah says, 'Listen, if things are not that good today, tomorrow is another day and a brighter day, and tomorrow you are going to light another candle.
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Rabbi Butman said the menorah erected in Midtown is actually 36 feet tall when taking into account the shamash, the middle candle that helps light the other eight.
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The menorah that started the fire in a front room of the Azan family's home was about two feet wide and burned oil held in small glass cups.
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Referring to the menorah — the traditional eight-pronged candelabra Jews traditionally light in windows during the holiday — Hepps told me it doubles as a symbol of Jewish visibility.
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All-red or mostly red items include an angel's head, an hourglass, a Tuxedo Club pomade can, a small plastic menorah and a nosegay of crimson bird feathers.
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What later happened to the menorah has been the object of intense speculation for centuries, giving rise to various, sometimes colorful, legends and scholarly hypotheses over its whereabouts.
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The exhibit, "Menorah: Worship, History, Legend," which includes about 130 artifacts, will open in May and will be presented at the Vatican Museums and at Rome's Jewish Museum.
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As the Jewish people reclaimed the Second Temple of Jerusalem in the 160s BC, a small amount of oil to light the menorah ended up lasting eight days.
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The National Menorah is now a 30-foot-tall structure that requires a lift from a cherry picker to light, and the event is broadcast on C-SPAN.
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Mashable could not find much evidence of Perry's dancing prowess, save for this video of him dancing around a menorah during a Hanukkah celebration at the Texas State Capitol.
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The Boston Globe reported that two witnesses saw a man dressed in black walk up to the lead menorah and topple it before fleeing on bicycle over the weekend.
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The major official event of every Israeli Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut) is the public lighting of a menorah, which is conducted up by the military cemetery on Mount Herzl.
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A returning shopper, Bruce Levin, reminisced about how, in 2003, his company had a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree for the holidays, but only a diminutive menorah without lights.
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The Yeshiva University Museum, co-sponsor of the event, will offer art hunts and exhibition tours, and the afternoon will conclude with a menorah lighting and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts).
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Also on Sunday, a Columbia University professor whose office was defaced with spray-painted swastikas on Wednesday was scheduled to light a menorah in front of the campus library.
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Gebreyohannes fled Ethiopia in 1981 as a refugee to Djibouti, then went to Canada in 1982, where she started observing the custom of lighting a menorah for eight days.
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On a nearby outdoor porch, an oil menorah was perched on a stool and encased in a glass box with golden trim, set at a distance from the house.
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In 2006, Mr. Patchen and his brother, Alex, made a menorah out of wood and artificial pine garland, decorated it with ornaments and lights, and surprised her with it.
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The soldiers only had enough oil to light the menorah for a single night, but the story goes that the little bit of oil lasted for eight full nights.
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Ms. Maiello works nights at the hospice inpatient residence at Menorah Center in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, and drives to work so she needs a spot to park near home.
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The sessions were held at the city's Menorah Center: a massive, 450,000 square foot, 22-story complex that is said to be the largest Jewish community center in Europe.
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"I found the Menorah you were looking for," one correspondent offered with a Trump-triumphant backdrop on his Twitter profile; it was a candelabrum made of the number six million.
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Rabbi Aaron Konikov, director of Chabad of Roslyn, said in a statement that the menorah is one of the tallest permanent ones in the world, according to NBC New York.
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Fine begins by looking at what we know from the Hebrew Bible of the temple menorah, then traces the ways in which it has meant different things to different people.
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The Menorah Tree grew out of a similar marital dynamic: Michael Patchen, who is Jewish, wanted something festive to suit his wife, Jenny, who is half Catholic and half Jewish.
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An article on Thursday about businesses that sell Hanukkah-themed products misstated, in some copies, the given name of the wife of Michael Patchen, a creator of the Menorah Tree.
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Shloime Rottenberg, the son of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, had just finished the ceremony of lighting the menorah at his father's upstate New York home when the attack started, Gancz said.
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Meir posted a picture Sunday on Twitter of her feet in blue and neon-colored Hanukkah socks, with a Menorah and a Star of David, from the International Space Station.
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"If you want that eight-foot-high menorah, then find other people who want it and get them on the board," said Steven D. Sladkus, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.
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Think a little about this news story from 2014: The Israeli government gave the US ambassador to Israel a Hanukkah menorah that looks like Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
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And before kneeling in front of the fireplace to shed those delicate, warm tears, for like, forever, he makes a stop in front of another symbol of light: the Perlman menorah.
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The menorah may be the star of the Festival of Lights, but kids who grew up in Jewish families know that Dr. Dreidel is where the real Hanukkah action is at.
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Eventually invited out by her father, Gertie joins the warmth of her family and is offered the honor of lighting a candle on the menorah and placing it in the window.
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The town green continues its tradition as a gathering spot, holding events such as a summer concert series, an arts-and-crafts fair and a holiday tree- and menorah-lighting ceremony.
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Babi Yar's commemorative memorial was vandalized nine times in 2015 and 2016, with everything from painted swastikas to an attempt on Rosh Hashana to burn down a menorah at the site.
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When it comes time to fire up the menorah, fry up the latkes and get the dreidel spinning, these Hollywood celebs know how to get it done ... and have some fun.
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These movies are the equivalent of a cheap, plastic menorah at a holiday party full of lush garlands and Christmas trees — a well-intentioned attempt at inclusion that ultimately falls flat.
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Mr. Greenstein's auction house, J. Greenstein and Company, in Cedarhurst, N.Y., also sold Sammy Davis Jr.'s personal menorah, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's piano and the law professor Alan Dershowitz's Judaica collection.
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In 1974, the first large public menorah, four feet tall and made out of wood, was lit by a rabbi in front of Independence Hall near the Liberty Bell in Pennsylvania.
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As the mayor of Burlington, Vt., Mr. Sanders in 1983 was asked by Rabbi Yitzchok Raskin to permit the lighting of an eight-foot-tall menorah on the steps of City Hall.
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The most recent is a white ceramic "menurkey"—a menorah shaped like a turkey—designed, in 2013, by a nine-year-old New Yorker to commemorate the confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
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BUSINESS DAY An article on Thursday about businesses that sell Hanukkah-themed products misstated, in some copies, the given name of the wife of Michael Patchen, a creator of the Menorah Tree.
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Rottenberg's son had just lit a menorah when, according to federal prosecutors, a 37-year-old man entered and said, "No one is leaving," before attacking congregants with an 18-inch machete.
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Novels have also taken up the theme, positing that the menorah was returned to Israel, or that perhaps it never left at all and was buried secretly on the road to Jerusalem.
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"The positive energy that there was tonight needs to be spread around," an unidentified Jewish man tells the group in American-accented English before handing over the menorah, which he called symbolic.
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But the absolute star of the show - the solid gold menorah taken as a trophy by the Romans when they destroyed the temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 AD, won't be there.
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Ergo, if Netanyahu invited the Honduran president to ignite a menorah-branch, then Netanyahu himself would have to be there, and, as long as he was there, why not give a speech, too?
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In Brooklyn, Mary DiGangi, the human resources director at the Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care, recently asked local employment agencies to find 22 to 22019 new nursing assistants and practical nurses.
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One of the surviving Azan children and a teenage cousin told investigators that the oil menorah had been left burning after they went to sleep and that they saw the fire start nearby.
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Seen by an estimated 500 million people, it's the world's most-viewed televised event, and has become as integral to the holiday as a menorah is on Hanukkah, or turkey is on Thanksgiving.
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"As soon as news of the exhibit will be printed in newspapers, everyone will say, 'Finally, the Vatican has dug out the original menorah,'" Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, joked on Monday.
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To them, what Nasrin is singing is Israeli music — and she's doing it not in small clubs in south Tel Aviv but in the Menorah Arena, the biggest indoor venue in the city.
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To them, what Nasrin is singing is Israeli music — and she's doing it not in small clubs in south Tel Aviv but in the Menorah Arena, the biggest indoor venue in the city.
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Chris also pledges to be "off book" and memorize the Hebrew blessing for lighting the menorah by the end of Hanukkah, and follows through by singing the words perfectly on the eighth night.
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The teenagers helped lead fire marshals to the cause when they told them that the menorah had been left burning after they went to sleep and that they saw the fire start nearby.
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Later in the day, Disick, 33, who is Jewish, posted a photo of himself holding both hands out in front of a menorah, writing: "Hashem is everywhere," Hashem being the Hebrew word for God.
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Some entrepreneurs have made it work (or are trying), with quirky products whether earnest (like the Star of David tree topper) or mildly subversive (like the Santa Claus yarmulke or a menorah-shaped bong).
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This holiday special makes sure to include the usual soap opera-esque issues that "The O.C." fans love like drinking, high school parties, and wealthy families — with a tree and menorah in the background.
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In the heat of finals season, students showed up en masse for the action beginning at 7, where Jewish leaders lit a menorah for the second night of Hanukkah, according to the Duke Chronicle.
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TEL AVIV, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Bank Leumi agreed to sell 80 percent of a 2 billion shekel ($533 million) mortgage loan portfolio to insurance company Menorah Mivtachim Holdings , Israel's second-largest bank said on Wednesday.
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Tonight, like many Jews around the world, I will be dusting off my menorah and scarfing down a number of store-bought latkes (who has time to grate eight pounds of potatoes on a weeknight?).
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Suitable for presentation under the tree, menorah or even a candelabra, these 2352 tomes present an escape up, up and away from the pall of politics and toward the more palatable allure of, say, pearls.
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But the number of respondents who said Christian displays should be allowed on their own, without symbols of other religions, like a Menorah, declined by 7 percentage points since 2013, to 37 percent from 44.
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Rottenberg's son had just lit a menorah when Grafton Thomas, 37, ran into the house with an 18-inch machete and yelled "No one is leaving," before attacking those in the home, federal prosecutors said.
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It was not clear whether Reid had someone buy the menorah especially for my visit or just keeps one lying around in case some reporter of (nominal) Jewish identity happens to drop by around Hanukkah.
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Friday is the sixth evening of the Jewish Festival of Lights — six candles of each menorah, in addition to the center flame, will be lit — and the museum is celebrating with a drop-in workshop.
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"In these days of the Hanukah holiday, the light must overcome the darkness, and Israel's light must overcome all challenges with the Jewish Menorah lights I would like to bring light in the world," he added.
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"I feel like the community is going to be more cautious now with lighting the menorah," Victor Levi, who described himself as a distant relative of the Azan family, said at the scene of the fire.
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Video of the celebration, which included a Jewish delegation giving a large silver menorah to Arab dignitaries and members of both groups dancing together, appeared on Monday on YouTube, where many commenters lauded the multicultural celebration.
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So why should we be urged to adopt it for ourselves, lest a raging argument about impeachment and any other number of Trump's crimes, calumnies, and perfidies dispel the false cheer around the mistletoe or menorah?
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I had to reconcile myself to the fact that come December, there would be a Christmas tree and a menorah, candy canes next to Hanukkah gelt, stockings on the banister and latkes in the frying pan.
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that since Menorah Medical Center's peer-review committee was not a political subdivision of Kansas, it was subject to the National Labor Relations Act.
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If you've ever had the unusual compulsion to eat the candles on your menorah but are dismayed by the decidedly unexciting flavor of wax, look no further than mentalist and thought-reader Marc Salem's Edible Hanukkah Candles.
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Article of the Day Article: From Yamaclaus to Menorah Bong: Hanukkah Goods That Can Hold a Candle Before Reading Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah both fall on the same day this year, Dec. 24.
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Titled "Menorah: Worship, History, Legend," it includes 130 objects from the first century through … well, Mr. Rosenthal, who created his first piece of Judaica as well as the only piece of commissioned original art for the exhibition.
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Yes, it's the festival of lights—the holiday when Jews worldwide celebrate the Biblical story in which a tiny amount of oil miraculously became enough to illuminate the menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem for eight entire nights.
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What Mr. Rosenthal did not know until he spoke to a rabbi, however, was that the almond tree is also sometimes referred to as "the tree of life" and thought to be a possible model for the menorah.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican and Rome's Jewish museum will jointly host an unprecedented exhibition on the menorah, the ancient symbol of Judaism, and try to put to rest legends on the fate of one candelabra missing for 15 centuries.
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Netanyahu's attempt to break precedent and bask in menorah-light was met with resistance by the organizers and scorn on the Israeli street, but Netanyahu called in reinforcements in the form of that most formidable of global powers, Honduras.
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The emblem is modeled on the Arch of Titus menorah, bracketed by olive branches and punctuated with the country's Hebrew name in a modernist socialist-realist-esque font, in an attempt to appeal to both religious and secular contingents.
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In 1818, a navigation company was founded to drag the Tiber in search of precious objects including the menorah, said Francesco Leone, an art historian at the G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and another curator of the exhibit.
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Light is a main theme of the eight-day festival because, Jewish tradition says, the Maccabees found only enough ritually pure oil to fuel the temple's ceremonial lamp, The Menorah, for one day, but it burned for eight days.
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Catholic and Jewish officials said the exhibition, called Menorah - Cult, History and Myth, was another sign of radically improved inter-religious relations since 1965, when the Second Vatican Council repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus.
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However you celebrate Hanukkah — whether you light the menorah, eat latkes with your local Hillel, or just watch A Rugrats Chanukah (which, BTW, is very good, Bass says) — the message of dedication and finding light in dark times still holds true.
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While the candelabra with nine candle holders is technically called a Hanukiah â€" a menorah is a popular, but general term for candelabras used any other time of year â€" app developers have stuck with the more well-known term.
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Elaine is stable, thanks to Medicaid and the medical and nursing staff at Menorah Park, a Jewish-affiliated nursing home in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, which has the resources to meet Elaine's significant personal care and health needs — for now.
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ROME — This much is known: In 70 AD the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, looted the temple of its treasure — including a seven-branched solid gold menorah — and brought at least some of the artifacts back to Rome in a triumphant procession.
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Representing the coming Year of the Rat, it's one of more than 120 illuminated exhibits that include safari animals, a fairy castle, a massive Christmas tree, a menorah and a tunnel-like panda with a body like a glittering Slinky.
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Think of someone you'd like to make an origami gift for and then check out some of these videos demonstrating how to make a box, bookmark, butterfly, heart, dog, cat, crane, star, dinosaur, dreidel, menorah, Christmas ornament or Christmas tree.
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The tradition of lighting the Menorah — one new candle each night — comes from the legend of a small can of oil that miraculously lasted eight days to keep the "eternal light" aflame while the ancient Jews rebuilt their destroyed temple.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A community-lighting ceremony with an artist-designed menorah and an immersive blacklight installation are two highlights of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)'s free Hanukkah celebration taking place this Wednesday, December 18.
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This month, some on the site are even offering holiday packages such as delivery of a full-bodied faux pine Christmas tree that comes pre-lit with 803 mini-white and 300 mini-colored lights or a Menorah with candles and matches.
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Keep lit candles away from flammable items, so when setting up a menorah or kinara, take note of its surroundings; all burning candles should be placed on a stable, heat-resistant surface where children and pets cannot reach them or knock them over.
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Finally, if you're looking for an antidote to all the socializing of this coming holiday season, the forced cheer of office parties and community caroling, the press of family, everyone small-talking under the mistletoe, beside the giant menorah, the glittery tree?
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Representing the Chinese zodiac's coming Year of the Rat, it's one of more than 120 illuminated exhibits that include safari animals, a fairy castle, a huge Christmas tree, a menorah and a tunnel-like panda with a body like a glittering Slinky.
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But it&aposs unfortunate that these movies turned out to be the equivalent of a cheap, plastic menorah at a holiday party full of lush garlands and Christmas trees — a well-intentioned attempt at inclusion that ultimately highlights the disparity even more.
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"The menorah stands as a symbol of freedom and delivers a timely and poignant message of strength and liberty, reminding us of the great miracle of Hanukkah," said Rabbi Motti Seligson, a spokesman for Chabad-Lubavitch, the organization responsible for the celebration.
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There are few exhibits, but hundreds of audio files for visitors to listen to via free headphones and iPods, each one expounding at length on everything from the distinctions between different concentration camps to the background of a single menorah in the collection.
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"Israel hopes that next year when the new American ambassador to Israel lights the menorah in his embassy, he will light it in the same city where the Maccabees lit it 2,200 years ago," Dermer said Tuesday at the Israeli embassy's annual Hanukkah party.
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Though the biblical menorah was a seven-branched candelabra, modern Israel prefers to use the twelve-branched version, which dedicates a flame to each of the ancient Israelite tribes and gives the event's organizers—a committee that includes Knesset members—more honors to distribute.
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CreditCreditSusan Wright for The New York Times Even without a book or a guide, even after two millenniums of crumbling, the image of the seven-branched candelabrum — the Jewish menorah — is unmistakable on the inner wall of the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum.
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" The Satanic tribute is one of four in the Capitol rotunda, along with the Christmas tree, the menorah and a solstice display from an anti-religion group that includes a sign that says, "Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
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But the most colorful and perhaps most repeated, if unsubstantiated, account is that the Vatican has hidden the menorah for centuries in an underground deposit, either in Vatican City or under the Basilica of St. John the Lateran, as a church official theorized in 1291.
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German Justice Minister Heiko Maas and Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller vowed during a menorah lighting at the Brandenburg Gate on Tuesday to combat all forms of anti-Semitism, while demonstrators continued to voice anger at the U.S. move at a separate event near Berlin's main train station.
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Although I've been trying to reconnect with my Jewishness all year, I almost didn't celebrate Hanukkah this time around on account of the fact that I don't own a menorah, and it's honestly been so long since I indulged in the festivities I forgot how to play dreidel.
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Perhaps I've read too many thrillers, but as I gazed up at this solemnly joyous creation, I imagined a plumb line dropping from the tiles of Christ's outstretched hand and coming to rest, magically, on the exact spot where the menorah had been stashed — fanciful, but not impossible.
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The center of the space, marked by a giant menorah, operates as a full-time modular studio, pumping out all sorts of content: Barstool produces a Sirius XM radio show (soon to be a whole channel), a growing list of podcasts and up to 220 blog posts a day.
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Now, Rome's Jewish community and the Vatican have teamed up to produce an exhaustive exhibition on the menorah, which in time became an enduring symbol of Jewish culture and religion, in a collaboration that leaders of the two communities described as a further step in solidifying their ties.
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" He ended up speaking for about 14 minutes—opening with a dubious anecdote about a trip he'd once taken to Rome, where he'd toured the Arch of Titus, whose entablature contains a relief depicting the looting of the original menorah from the Second Temple during Titus's re-conquest of Jerusalem in, yes, 70 C.E. According to Netanyahu's account—which, as it went on, took on the grizzled repetitiousness of a Jewish joke—he visited the site (presumably with aides and a gargantuan security contingent) only to find himself beset by groups of "Japanese and Scandinavian tourists," who, apparently, kept pointing at the Arch's menorah and suddenly erupted into a chant, "Israel, Israel, Israel.
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What the man did after he exited the range of the camera, on the first floor of a Yeshiva University dormitory on East 29th Street in Manhattan, was use matches meant for lighting a Hanukkah menorah to set three small fires in the building, where students were sleeping, fire officials said.
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American, Eastern European and Israeli Jews eat potato latkes and sufganiyot to celebrate the ancient miracle of Hanukkah, in which, after the Maccabees declared victory over the Assyrians, a tiny vial of oil in the temple kept the menorah lit for eight days when it was supposed to last for only one.
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After passing a replica of the Arch of Titus, commemorating Rome's victory over Jerusalem, and depicting soldiers carrying the seven-branched menorah, visitors are offered a well-lit and spacious display of original and replicated artifacts: ancient engravings, amulets, rings, seals and oil lamps with Jewish symbols, medieval manuscripts, some now on permanent loan from other national Italian museums.
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The store carries skate basics from Vans, Nike SB and Thrasher, including a hoodie with a hilarious menorah-theme riff on the classic logo ($75), but also clothing from forward-thinking skate brands, like Bronze 56K, Quartersnacks, Civilist and Dime, as well as from local pseudo-pirate-radio-cum-streetwear line Know-Wave (though Dover Street Market sells the more artistically-minded ones).
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The Grav Menorah is a bong with eight bowls you can hit at the same time, and as soon as I pulled it out of the box I knew I could no longer ignore my religion's sacred winter tradition, where Jews all around the world gather by candles flickering with the dank, infinite light of G-d to remind us who we are and how we got here.
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Stand at the base of the single-passage arch and look up, and the scene in bas-relief ripples to life with almost cartoon clarity: Straining porters, trudging along what is plainly the route of a Roman triumph, bear aloft the golden menorah and other sacred loot plundered from the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The opposite side of the arch depicts the victory lap of the chief plunderer, Emperor Titus — who, as an ambitious young general, crushed the Jews' revolt, leveled their Temple and brought enough booty and slaves back to Rome to finance an epic construction program that included the Colosseum.
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We all know the recipe: 1 gallon of every relative individually asking you how dating is going 5 cups of unsolicited advice 2 cups of schlepping and trimming your Christmas tree, Christmas lights, and menorah alone 6 ounces of watching other people exchange gifts ⅓ cup of being asked to move so a couple can sit together on a flight 1 shot of disbelief that you're "still" single ⅛ teaspoon of someone telling you marriage isn't that great either A dash of someone asking what Tinder is Sprinkle with no fewer than 11 Instagram engagements near an ice skating rink Mix well and serve No one but us knows what it's like to sip on that tea.
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