Saturday, December 19, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Andover, MA - After Previous Disagreements Town Officials Warm Up to Menorah Lighting - 'Andover, MA - The frigid, 9-degree weather kept Rabbi Asher Bronstein from using lamp oil for the menorah lighting ceremony on the town common last night. But the turnout of about 100 -- including some of the town officials who he threatened to sue less than a month ago -- generated a warm reception for the rabbi and others who gathered on the second floor of the Museum of Printing across the street from the common. "Everybody is happy," said Bronstein, a rabbi at Andover's Chabad Lubavitch of Merrimack Valley, after the Board of Selectmen and the top town officials had accepted his invitation to join him over hot chocolate, doughnuts and latkes in celebrating the seventh night of Hanukkah...'
