Word: menorahs
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...last night, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci sponsored a measure that allowed Chabad House of Greater Boston to place a menorah near Out of Town News in Harvard Square. Wolf, the Council's only Jewish member, said she feared Vellucci's proposal might violate the separation of church and state...
...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...
...City Council last night passed resolutions allowing a Jewish organization to place a menorah in Harvard Square, calling for a hearing to discuss the city's anti-smoking ordinance and commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of a city school...
...headquarters in New York City to Reims Cathedral in France to the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem with the soothing light of benign sentiment. His quasi-religious imagery, modular and diffuse at the same time, would serve (with adjustments: drop the flying cow, put in a menorah) to commemorate nearly anything, from the Holocaust to the self-celebration of a bank. When he died last week at the age of 97 at his home near Nice, Chagall's career had spanned more than three-quarters of a century of unremittingly active artmaking...
...thorny Moses, an unfinished twelve-tone opera freely adapted from Exodus, turned out to be a sensation. It begins with a powerful interpolated silent prologue. A community of black-suited, ringleted and bearded Hasidim is peaceably gathered on a set that includes a large menorah and Torah scrolls and, on the sides, a Jewish cemetery. Suddenly, khaki-suited, helmeted storm troopers rush in and desecrate the scene. The swift brutality was a provocative coup de theatre -- especially in Austria, where memories of the 1938 Nazi invasion are still fresh and where former Wehrmacht Officer Kurt Waldheim now presides...