Word: menorahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joined Harvard Friends of Chabad to light a Hanukkah menorah on the steps of Widener Library before heading over to his weekly tea at Sparks House, the official residence of the Plummer professor...
...whether it's lighting the Hanukkah menorah or making sure that atheists receive guidance and support at the College, Gomes is a figure who conjures up images of a higher realm...
After the lighting of the menorah for the fifth night of Hanukah, the four chair candidates and two associate chair candidates made speeches to the assembled audience and responded to questions. Candidates' position papers were available to the crowd...
...singing the Hebrew blessings and screwing a flame-colored bulb into a plastic candelabrum sitting on my dresser, as Harvard advises, doesn't really complete the ritual for me. Some years, my family has packed a menorah and candles on overseas vacations because the practice of lighting it is so religiously symbolic and important to us. Christmas lights and trees, on the other hand, are traditional but not mandated by Christian teaching. They are pretty and sentimental but without direct religious symbolism...
Jewish students are supposed to be satisfied that they can attend public menorah lightings at a different time each evening in freshman dorms and upperclass houses. Hillel is doing what it can to provide us with Hannukah as we knew it at home, but once again, Harvard is dictating how we observe our holidays. It started with the first-year move-in being scheduled on the two days of Rosh Hashanah (or should I say Rosh Hashanah being scheduled on first-year move-in?). The families of Jewish first-years--300 or 400 in all--had to attempt to welcome...