Word: menorahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing before an embroidered Star of David and a seven-branched menorah (candlestick). David Bronstein faced his congregation and began: "This is Hanukah week, as we all know. And we all know that Hanukah, the Hebrew feast of lights, has a special meaning for us." The meaning: that Jesus Christ is the Light of the World...
...Hanukkah (literally, "dedication") commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after Judah Maccabee and his brothers overthrew the Syrians, who were led by Antiochus (circa 165 B.C.). The legend goes that the sacred light (Menorah) burned for eight days with only a single day's supply of consecrated...
Iowa-born and Alabama-raised, Editor Cohen, 51, was brilliant enough to graduate from Yale at 19 and become managing editor of a small bimonthly, the Menorah Journal, at 24. While editing it for seven years, he showed a sharp eye for new talent, printed the first work of Lionel Trilling, Tess Slesinger, Albert Halper, Meyer Levin and a dozen other writers...