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menorah

[muh-nawr-uh, -nohr-uh] / məˈnɔr ə, -ˈnoʊr ə /
NOUN
candlestick
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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

On Sunday evening, leaders from the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Pacific Palisades gathered at the mall to light a towering menorah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

But beyond that, the reports are like Christmas trees, or candles on a menorah.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

As 18:47 neared - the time of the attack the day before - a group of local Jewish leaders stepped forward with a large menorah with candles.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

She took down the aluminum-foil menorah the first graders had put on her door, and she wouldn’t let any of Charles’s signs into the room.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

Hundreds of hand-drawn menorahs appeared in windows around Billings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

She called her pastor, Keith Torney, and asked if the children in Sunday school could draw menorahs and display them in their windows in solidarity with their Jewish neighbors.

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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