Hanukkah Menorahs — a different kind of candlestick

  By Ruth Ellen Gruber In Tablet Magazine, editor Alana Newhouse recently wrote about the variety of Hanukkah menorahs, the eight-branched (or nine, if you count the Shammas) candelabras lit for the Hanukkah holiday — one candle a night, with increasing candles until on the last night all eight are lit. Throughout the vagaries of [...]

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Article on Candlesticks in Tablet Magazine

Tablet Magazine has published my article on this project, along with a slide show. It was the first week in September, and in cowboy boots and jeans, camera slung over my shoulder, I crunched through the springy thick tangle of undergrowth that carpets the old Jewish cemetery in Radauti, a market town in the far [...]

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