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...Where it has run into some local competition. In Brooklyn, the Orthodox Jewish Shakespeare Troupe of the Menorah Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm has its annual summer production too. This year it was Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, 76, wearing a blue gown she made herself, addressed the audience at the end, saying: "Did I do bad? I wanted my husband to be a somebody." Said the 82-year-old Macbeth to his lady: "A king I had to be? A 15-room castle wasn't good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The Shakescene | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...students at Harvard, reported in the Saturday, April 27, edition of your newspaper, is a capital idea. It is surely not racial discrimination' in any accurate meaning of the term if the proposed group excludes students of other racial origins from membership. If Harvard has a chapter of the Menorah Society and non-Catholics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY | 5/8/1963 | See Source »

Unearthing a marble slab showing the menorah, the seven-armed candle-holder, a tree, and the shofar (the ram's horn used to announce the New Year), the American archaeologists became convinced that the large structure was the meeting place of the Jewish community of Sardis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Finds Synagogue In Expedition at Sardis | 10/1/1962 | See Source »

Standing before an embroidered Star of David and a seven-branched menorah (candlestick). David Bronstein faced his congregation and began: "This is Hanukah week, as we all know. And we all know that Hanukah, the Hebrew feast of lights, has a special meaning for us." The meaning: that Jesus Christ is the Light of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hebrew Christians | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...Hanukkah (literally, "dedication") commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after Judah Maccabee and his brothers overthrew the Syrians, who were led by Antiochus (circa 165 B.C.). The legend goes that the sacred light (Menorah) burned for eight days with only a single day's supply of consecrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hanukkah in Jerusalem | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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