Word: menorahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 group...
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...
Jessica B. Ludwig '92-'93 said, "If they'regoing to make a big deal about paying forsomething religious, why don't they get rid of theChristmas tree and the menorah [in Dunster...
...Shamir's aides dances in with a menorah. The Israeli delegation lights the candles, sings the prayers and exchanges gifts. Another aide brings in a plate of steaming latkes. Yet another starts a dreidel game. Shamir stands up, breaks into a smile and leads the conference participants in a round of "Rock of Ages...
...offered to let me make Chanukah ornaments. I told him that it would be a fire hazard to hang ornaments on my menorah. We compromised and I made a nondenominational knock-hockey...