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...fact, we decorated it with both Christmas and Hanukkah decorations and we are going to make a menorah this weekend out of clay we bought," she says...
...designer, San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz used the symbolic number six throughout the Memorial to evoke the six million Jews killed, the six main Nazi death camps--Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinks, Majdanek, Sobibor, Chelnino and Belzes the six pointed star of David and the seven-branched Menorah, one branch missing in remembrance of the million who died...
...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...
...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...