Word: menorahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, the City Council decided to allow Rabbi Shmuel Posner and the Chabad House of Greater Boston to place a menorah on city property in Harvard Square. Posner said he leads both a congregation and an organization for the promotion of Jewish religious observance in the area...
...Councillor Alice T. Wolf says she thinks the placement of the menorah is "okay, as long as it is made clear that it was by a private group...
...addition, the Supreme Court is due to consider a more recent case concerning the county administration building of Allegheny County, PA. A federal appeals court ruled that administrators should not have flanked the building's front entrance with a 45-foot Christmas tree and a menorah of nearly equal size...
That court found that the Allegheny County decorations, on a public building were different from the Pawtucket nativity scene, on a publicly owned field. It ruled that the position of the decorations, especially the menorah, implied public "establishment" of specific religions...
...Wolf said she supported the order, so long as Chabad House made it clear that the menorah was a private form of self-expresion and not officially sponsored by the city...