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Hanukkah Menorahs
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Jerusalem
Menorahs --> Jerusalem Stone and Glass Menorah and
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Symbolic use
The various "Jerusalem stones" are employed
worldwide in Jewish buildings as a symbol of Jewish
identity. It has been used this way in many Jewish
Community Centers, including the one in San Jose,
Costa Rica, in Hillel buildings such as the Columbia/Barnard
Hillel building, in Jewish memorials including
the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach, in many
Jewish schools including the Charles E. Smith
Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland and in
numerous synagogues, including the 1901 Ades Synagogue
in Aleppo, Syria and the new Jewish Chapel at
the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis,
Maryland.
This
use has become so common that one rabbi told the
New York Times in 2007 that “Every synagogue in
the world has Jerusalem stone in it.”
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Other
Jewish buildings use Jerusalem stone in a symbolic
manner. Thus the 1855 building of Congregation Baith
Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn, New York has elements
painted in a trompe-l'śil manner to look like Jerusalem
stone, and Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin,
Texas has walls of Texas limestone designed to evoke
Jerusalem stone.
Some Christian institutions, including the Upper
Room Prayer and Worship Center in Saint Joseph,
Missouri use Jerusalem stone to evoke Jerusalem.
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