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  • Lighting ceremony goes private after compromise [Seculars Protest Hanukkah Menorah]

    12/25/2005 7:53:41 AM PST · by Alouette · 39 replies · 1,012+ views
    ECNnews ^ | Dec. 25, 2005 | Stacie N. Galang
    PEABODY — Mayor Michael Bonfanti will not attend tomorrow night's menorah lighting ceremony at City Hall, as part of a compromise between the city and local religious leaders. The practice of lighting a large menorah in front of City Hall to mark the start of Hanukkah began last year when Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman of Chabad of Peabody, a Jewish outreach group unaffiliated with a Peabody synagogue, approached Bonfanti about placing a menorah at City Hall and asking him to light one of the candles. Chabad had a public lighting ceremony on the first night of the eight-day holiday last year....