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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

My family sat down to watch the menorah lighting, and I went to get food, barely 50 feet away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

It ends with a big Halloween party and a fast punk rock song about all the different ways to make a menorah that channels Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

The first time we met the Gestapo, they’d helped themselves to most of the books, one painting, the silver menorah, and all of Grandmother Adler’s china.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

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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