A public menorah is a large menorah displayed publicly during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. It is done to celebrate the holiday and publicize the miracle of Hanukkah, and is typically accompanied by a public event during one of the nights of Hanukkah attended by invited dignitaries who are honored with lighting the menorah.[1]
Public menorah lighting were initiated by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in 1974. The most prominent public menorah celebration takes place in Washington DC, and is known as the National Menorah. In 2013 Chabad planned 15,000 public menorah lighting events across the globe.
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to Baruch with a rabbinic title, claiming that Baruch was averse to any public acknowledgment of his status. In the course of the Hasidic movement's establishment...
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facilitate the nightly lighting ceremony. The menorah has since been designated Brooklyn's Official Menorah by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz...
the world; this campaign also promotes erecting and lighting large publicMenorahs. the Purim campaign, to encourage Jews to fulfil the commandments of...
genuine Jewish education; permission for Jewish children not to attend public school on Shabbat; and the creation of a united Jewish organization for...
solemnly forsworn idolatry. The "via media" was taken by those that regarded public adherence to the seven Noachian precepts as the indispensable prerequisite...
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spokesman, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky. After Schneerson's death in 1994 he became a public speaker.[citation needed] Groner is a co-author, with Rabbi Volf Greenglass...
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