Word: hanukkah
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...disobedience. Four times the Klan put it up, and three times protesters knocked it down. The list of those arrested for anti-Klan actions included seven whites and six blacks. Ironically, the Klan was backed by a federal court decision requiring the city to permit the placement of a Hanukkah menorah in another part of Fountain Square. Now some residents wonder if a beloved local gathering place will ever be the same. Reflected one: "Fountain Square has been a place where we only celebrated those things that brought us together." The day after the Klan's cross disappeared, a local...
JUST AS CINCINNATI THOUGHT IT MIGHT LIVE DOWN the embarrassing Marge Schott affair came yet another specter of bigotry: taking advantage of a federal court decision that forced the city to permit a huge Hanukkah menorah in a public square, the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby. Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection, hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled and trampled on it -- but the Klan...
Unlike Christmas or Hanukkah, Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday; the festival celebrates seven principles -- unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- assigned to each of the days. Observers gather each evening to light one of the candles in the kinara, a seven-cup candelabrum, and discuss how the principle of the day affects their life. Small gifts are often exchanged...
...other institutions have begun to adopt the celebrations. Last year more than 8,500 people attended poetry readings, music performances and puppet shows during the sixth annual observance at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian added a program of Kwanzaa activities to its Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations...
Traditionalists disapprove of these developments but say they are a natural part of the evolution of holiday celebrations. "These things are going to happen, just as they have with Christmas, Chinese New Year and Hanukkah," says Tulivu Jadi, an official at the African American Cultural Center in Los Angeles. "But there is still a community -- and not a small one -- that observes the serious intent of the holiday." This year the center is collecting food and clothing for the homeless, another way to spread the true joys of Kwanzaa...