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Righting a wrong, lighting a menorah in Cambridge

Relighting the Cambridge Common menorah

Photo by Ron Newman

Ron Newman attended a ceremony on Cambridge Common tonight where residents and officials honored the people who put a large menorah back up Sunday afternoon after some guy on a bike went to the effort to knock it down.

The suspect, described by Cambridge Police as "a white male dressed all in black and riding a black bicycle," remains at large.

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but just for this ceremony, Chabad temporarily replaced the light-bulb fixtures with oil-burning lamps.

Design could be more curvy! Looking for rounded design public menorahs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_menorah

Designers/Artists/Sculptors/Architects/Design Schools' students can create curvy public menorahs.

Low center of gravity, good design. A good idea!

Time for curvy design, for rounded design of important Public Menorahs, for example in the spirit of Frank Gehry https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+gehry+sketches&tbm=isch

No longer the rehashed angular sculpted types reangled from angular swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

...wore out a long long time ago.

you should go to the Museum of Fine Arts, where quite a few are on display in various galleries. The MFA had a big free Chanukah event Wednesday night, which included tours of their Judaica collection.

https://www.mfa.org/collections/judaica

See photos of the Judaica collection on view

Photo I took of the MFA's temporary public menorah on Wednesday night

Thank you!

Old Judaica designs are refreshed for example by young designers from italian arts schools.

Who designed the menorah?... at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156283436743757

It's a standard Chabad menorah. They believe the angular design is authentic: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3523185/jewish/Why-Insist...

Thank you!

...insightful information!

Current interpretations look like rehashed reangled from angular swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

For helping soothe the wounds from a bicyclist.