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Updated: 22 December 2011 | 7:38 am in Featured, Statewide News

Photos: Postville Orthodox Jewish community celebrates Hanukkah

First public lighting ceremony in Postville


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Offel Lavon (center) his son four-year-old Baruch and four-year-old daughter Shayna as they attend the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

 

Menachem Shanowitz, Chaim Ginsberg and Chaim Grossbaum sing holiday songs with other men and boys during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Orthodox Jewish boys and men dance and listen to holiday music during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Offel Lavon takes a photograph of a large menorah as he and his son four-year-old Baruch attend the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Dr. Mordechai Lederman lights candles on the second day of Hanukkah during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Dr. Mordechai Lederman lights candles on the second day of Hanukkah during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Dr. Mordechai Lederman (left) offers blessings before he lights two candles on a large menorah during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. Menachem Orenstein is at right. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Rabbi Zeevi Frummerman gives the Hanukkah message during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Orthodox Jewish boys and men listen to the Hanukkah message by Rabbi Zeevi Frummerman during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Organizer Menachem Orenstein gives a history of Hanukkah to visitors during the first public menorah lighting ceremony at Moore's IGA on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Postville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)



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