With news of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S., the author first debated and then decided to put his menorah in the window — with the U.S. Postal Service as a surprising source of inspiration. LOS ...

Two years ago I was in Baltimore on business and happened to pass by the public menorah in front of Johns Hopkins University just as the first light was being lit. My eyes welled with tears. Although ...

The 19th-century menorah in my grandmother’s house in Ukraine was intricately made with delicately laced silver flowers and oval medallions on both sides that bore Hebrew writing. Instead of a shamash ...

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Bernie Madoff, who scammed clients out of $65 billion, died on April 14 in federal prison. He was 82. Timothy A. Clary Getty Images So Bernie Madoff is dead. But let me show you his menorah, and tell ...

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JACKSON - Hanukkah is a hands-on holiday for Leib Wolf. Each year, the demolition contractor looks forward to the Festival of Lights. He says it allows him to unleash his creative side, which appears ...

In the weeks before Chanukah, with anticipation of the holiday brightly filling my mind, the darkening news of rising anti-Semitism in the United States began to filter in. As I pictured our menorahs ...

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