Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 28, 1953
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All dressed up for the Purim festival at 2 p.m, tomorrow at Beth Israel Community Center are Randy Fagin, 4 1/2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Fagin of 514 N. Seventh St. and Jane Freedman, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Freedman of Maple Ridge. Jane represents the Biblical Queen Esther, who helped deliver the Jews from a plot to exterminate them, and Randy is costumed as the king. Purim means "lots" which we cast to set the extermination day. A joyous holiday of deliverance, the Sunday school celebration tomorrow will include carnival booths with games and refreshments.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 24, 1955
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Hannukah Is Also Time For Dredels: Mrs. Jack Wigod shows her daughter, Rebecca, how to play a game connected with Hannukah. The Dredel, a spinning top-like toy, is spun to stop on letters on a card. The letters represent words meaning " A great miracle happened then." The miracle referred to is the double miracle which Hannukah commemorates the driving of the Selucids from Jerusalem and the cleansing of the temple with one small flask of lamp oil which burned for the entire eight days of the first Hannukah.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 24, 1955
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Eight Little Candles For Hannukah: Placing candles in the Hannukah candelabra is an historic ceremony and these children at the Beth Israel Community Center obviously are enjoying it as they each place one candle in the two holders. An extra candle is also there--the Shamash, or helper candle, from which all the rest are lighted.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 24, 1955
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Hannukah is a time of wonder: Children of the Beth Israel Community Center's Sunday School watch as their classmates enact the ceremony of placing the Hannukah candles in an eight-candle candelabra in commemoration of the eight days required for the purification of the temple after a victory by Judas Maccabeus over the Selucids in the Second century B. C.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 13, 1960
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Observe Hanukkah: Rabbi Julius Weinberg of Beth Israel Community Center lights the first candle for the Jewish observance of Hanukkah which begins this evening. Children in a Hebrew class watching Rabbi Weinberg are (left to right) Linda Herzog of 1631 Saunders Crescent, Mark Warshaw of 2045 Norfolk Ct, and Matthew Lampe of 1600 Newport Rd.