menorah
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A menorah and a humble church flash on the screen.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
It ended with the lighting of the menorah, something the crowds gathered for Hannukah last week never got to do.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
As a song—“Just a Little Bit of Light”—plays, he lifts a large menorah from his car, fastens it onto the roof, lights it, and dances beside it, out in the street.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
Kobi Farkash, an Israeli tourist, said he was waiting for the lighting of the menorah for the first night of Hanukkah when he heard a sound that he thought was a firework.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Mr. Petrelli put flashing colored lights around his door and a menorah with orange light bulbs on his window shelf.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
The learning-center displays, for example, are often entrancing, particularly a 50-foot glass vitrine featuring a stunning array of more than 130 menorahs from around the globe, dating back to the first millennium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
The attack on the home, which had been decorated with inflatable animals, dreidels and menorahs for Hanukkah, was captured on surveillance video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
When the non-Jews of Billings put up their menorahs, they were standing for religious liberty for all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
“The Essex Jewish community has proudly been displaying menorahs for 35 years, and this is our 10th and newest,” Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, executive director of Chabad North East London & Essex, said in a statement.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
The fourth graders cut menorahs from cardboard and covered them with glittering aluminum foil.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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