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Lawrence community events to celebrate Hanukkah
Upcoming local celebrations of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah will welcome all ages of the public.
Chloe Anderson/Lawrence Times
Upcoming local celebrations of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah will welcome all ages of the public.
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Community members are welcome to gather at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at KU on Sunday to celebrate the grand opening of the new center.
The leaders of a Jewish center at KU joined a chorus of sorrow and outrage over the killing of alumna Sarah Milgrim and her partner Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The Chabad Center for Jewish Life will light candles on a 9-foot-tall menorah at an annual Lawrence Hanukkah celebration.
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel and his wife have run the KU Chabad Center since 2006. After being maxed out at a one-story house on 19th Street for years, their dreams of expansion are finally coming true.
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life at KU on Sunday will celebrate a huge milestone: a groundbreaking for a facility that will quadruple the center’s space.
Internationally recognized author and speaker Doron Kornbluth will be in Lawrence on Sunday to discuss the Jewish approach to burial, cremation and end-of-life issues.
Courtesy of Chabad Center for Jewish Life
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life will host two communitywide Hanukkah celebrations downtown next week, focusing on spreading love and light to counter darkness.
Flyers with antisemitic messages were spread in Lawrence this week, prompting a call for support of Jewish community members amid the acts of hate.
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Continuing an annual tradition Sunday, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Lawrence invited the community to a special celebration of the beginning of Hanukkah.
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