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Breaking News Teen Charged in New York Menorah Vandalism Near Mayor’s Home
New York City cops have reportedly arrested a 14-year-old boy for knocking over a 100-pound menorah at Carl Schurz park, two blocks from the mayor’s Gracie Mansion home. Police charged the teen with two counts of criminal mischief and a hate crime, The teen was arrested Friday evening by the Hate Crimes Task Force after…
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Breaking News Istanbul Jews Hold First Public Hanukkah Ceremony in Decades
Several hundred Jews in Istanbul participated in what is said to have been the city’s first public lighting of Hanukkah candles in decades. The ceremony took place on Sunday evening in Ortakoy, a neighborhood on the European banks of the Bosporus Straits. Leading the celebration was Isaac Ibrahimzadeh, the president of the Jewish Community of…
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Breaking News Australia’s Turnbull Kindles Hanukkah Lights at Sydney Central Synagogue
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull participated in the Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at Sydney’s Central Synagogue. Turnbull lit the shamash and held it during the blessings, passing it to Cantor Shimon Farkas to light the eight candles on Sunday night. The prime minister spoke to over 500 members of Sydney’s Central Synagogue community about the…
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Recipes Post-Hanukkah Detox Breakfast
A date and almond-butter smoothie (recipe below) is the perfect way to ease out of eight days of indulgence. Last night, as our fully lit menorah glowed majestically in the window, I breathed a sigh of relief. The candles’ dwindling light meant that Hanukkah was nearing its end. To be clear, I love Hanukkah and…
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Breaking News New Jersey Orthodox Enclave Yanks Menorah — Leaves Christmas Tree in Town Square
Government officials in the heavily Orthodox town of Lakewood, New Jersey removed a Hanukkah menorah from the town square while allowing a Christmas tree to remain. The decision to remove the menorah, which the township has displayed alongside a Christmas tree for decades, came after a resident threatened to sue, The Associated Press reported, citing…
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Breaking News Chabad Menorah in Suburban Chicago Is Vandalized
A six-foot-tall Hanukkah menorah in Evanston, Illinois was vandalized. The damage to the electric menorah is being investigated as a possible hate crime, Chicago’s CBS Local reported Thursday. The menorah stands outside a facility run by the Chicago Mitzvah Campaign, a Chabad group that provides services to Jewish patients, visitors and staff members of nearby…
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Breaking News Dutch Rabbi Invites Muslims to Lighting of 36-Foot-High Menorah
The chief rabbi of the Netherlands lit what he said is Europe’s largest kosher menorah, which was built for the Jewish community by Zionist Christians. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs lit the second candle of Hanukkah on menorah opposite town hall in the southern city of Maastricht on Tuesday, he wrote in a blog post for the…
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Breaking News Israeli President Brings the Cheer to White House Hanukkah Party
(JTA) — Reuven Rivlin toddles up the White House driveway. He is grinning as he shouts in Hebrew to a phalanx of local Israeli reporters shivering in the December chill: “If you must live in a Diaspora, live in this one!” Washington’s Hanukkah week has found an unlikely Santa Claus in Israel’s president: His workshop, where…
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