Word: menorahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grown up with this," said Tony Zacharek '95, gesturing to the Haft Seen. "Usually there are family photos around the table. It's kind of like a Christmas tree or a Menorah in that it's icon of tradition associated with the holiday...
...opinion of Jews, or the Jewish religion, one way or another. But the fact was that the community I had grown up in was almost wholly gentile and, at my high school, it was Christmas trees and nativity scenes once December rolled around; if anyone had seen a menorah, they probably would have looked for the birthday cake...
...Jewish students felt that their holiday didn't have equal time," says Sean N. Harte '95-'96, current Co-Chair of the Winthrop House Committee. "Yet those students knew about the funds, and they could have bought a Menorah. I don't know if a Menorah is considered to be religious, but a (Christmas) tree is not religious at all, at least in my mind...
...Christmas tree has roots that reach all the way back to pre-Christian times," he says, "back to the idea of cycles of nature, and perhaps, even, the tree of life." He also notes that one of his doctoral students several years ago carried out research on the Menorah and hypothesized that its roots were also in the tree of life, preceding the time of Moses some 1700 years...
...house committee fund will now be available for "any group that comes forward to decorate for the holiday, but specifically a menorah and Christmas tree," said committee co-chair Sean N. Harte...