A Chanukah menorah will be installed in a public square in the former “Soviet Jewish homeland.” The more than 12-feet-high menorah will be erected this week in one of Birobidzhan’s main squares in front of the local House of Culture, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia reported.
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