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BOSTON – This week, pedestrians strolling past the Milk Street Café outside Post Office Square downtown might be taken aback by giant, round faces peeking out at them from the windows. Some have a message to communicate, and others just want to share a wave. "Giants," an exhibit by
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BOSTON – The State House filled with traditional Judaic music Monday as a giant 18-foot-high menorah stood over the joyous crowd. "Oseh Shalom," sung by local students of the Schechter Day School, brought the message of peace to an appreciative audience. Gov. Charlie Baker joined House Speaker Robert DeLeo,
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Trying to find another way to spend some quality time with your kids this holiday season? Cozy up with them before bedtime with one of these classic Christmas or Hanukkah stories, which recount tales of how the magical season came to be. Instill the holiday spirit and watch them pore
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LAKEWOOD, N.J. — It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here. But Hanukkah? Not so much. In this town of about 90,000 residents, including a large Jewish enclave, a complaint over a menorah set up beside a decorated Christmas tree in Town Square has triggered the
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(RNS) — From an ice-skating soiree in New York to a comedy night in Los Angeles, here are eight of our favorite fetes to celebrate Hanukkah, which began at sundown Sunday. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Jerusalem temple in 167 B.C.E. and the miracle of the tiny
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What do Jan. 7 and 9, 2016, mean to you? Unless these dates have some personal significance to we who live in the relative security of the United States, these dates probably conjure up nothing significant in our minds.
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JERUSALEM (RNS) — Women must be allowed to light Hanukkah candles and say a prayer at the official candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall when the Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on Sunday (Dec. 6), Israel's deputy attorney general said this week. Every year, eight official lighting ceremonies — one
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