Last December, a congregant emailed me a photograph of her living room window decorated with an Israeli flag and a Chanukah menorah. “In my window like you said we’re supposed to do,” she wrote.

The temperature hovered around 15 degrees below zero, but that didn’t keep a large crowd from gathering at Golden Heart Park early Sunday evening to witness the lighting of the menorah atop an ...

A surfboard menorah was lit at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 29, representing the fifth night of Hanukkah and a public statement of Jewish pride and perseverance in the face of many challenges.