Summary
A show of solidarity after a recent act of anti-Semitic vandalism gave fresh meaning to an ancient celebration Tuesday night as people of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds descended on Temple Beth Israel in Maywood to usher in the eight-day festival of Hanukkah.
The holiday celebrates religious freedom, symbolized in the story of a war-ravaged temple's tiny oil lamp that miraculously burned on for eight days instead of one. But the event also was billed as an evening of "Spreading Light in Maywood" -- a response to a still- unsolved hate attack earlier this month on the borough's only synagogue.See the full content of this document
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Tolerance Lights Way in Maywood
"I was surprised that it happened here, but it could happen anywhere," said Dan Kirsch, a former chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Bergen County. "People can come...
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