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DAVID SACHS MENORAH

"This '50' menorah has double
significance to me. On my first visit
to Israel in 2001, I discovered it for
sale in a bookshop in the Mea Shearim
neighborhood of Jerusalem. It
apparently was left over from Israel's
50th anniversary celebration three
years earlier.
"The next spring, I presented it to
my wife, Pat, to help celebrate her
50th birthday. Pat passed away from
cancer four years later at age 54."

- David Sachs, senior copy editor,
Southfield

SHELL! DORFMAN MENORAH

"A favorite menorah that has been lit in our home isn't actually one that
belongs to us.
"On the first night of Chanukah in 2003, our son was at a conference in
Israel and our younger daughter, Stephanie, was studying in Jerusalem. Our
older daughter, Kim, and her husband, Bryan, were planning to stay home with
their 3-month-old daughter, Shira, our first grandchild. As my husband Michael
and I got ready to light our candles, Kim and Bryan surprised us by walking
into our home carrying Shira and her personalized, hand-painted menorah, a
gift from close friends Andi and Marc Rothenberg.
"Kim and Bryan said they wanted Shira's very first night of Chanukah to
be shared with her family, a sentiment continued in many future experiences.
Through the years, Shira has brought her menorah back to our home and to
those of various family members. In turn, she has lit several of our special
menorahs, including a silver design from my parents, sent to us on our first
Chanukah after we were married in 1975; a heavy, stone-puzzle creation
purchased - and dragged home - from a family trip to Israel; and a colored-
glass, hand-blown, class bar
mitzvah gift given to our son
when he was a student at Hillel
Day School. With each additional
grandchild - now there are eight -
comes one more special menorah,
lined up and lit together in a
blazing celebration of continued
religious and family history."

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- Shelli Dorfman, contributing
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COHEN MENORAH

"This unusual chanukiah was a gift from friends we met in Dayton, Ohio.
Haim and Ariella Itkis are educators who came from Israel to work at our
community Hebrew school. They had two boys a little older than our girls,
and then had a baby girl, Meital, before they returned home to Israel.
"We bonded over our community work, the children, Israel and music, and
enjoyed our time together. We visit them on our trips to Israel. In the last
decade, both of their boys died: Barak in the Israeli Navy, and Amichai in the
Israeli Air Force.
"We always favored this chanukiyah because of its beauty and because
the Itkises gave it to us. It reminds us of them, and how time has changed
so much for better and for
worse.
"The chanukiyah is made
by Don Drumm of Akron, Ohio,
who in the 1950s pioneered
the use of cast aluminum as
an artistic medium."

-KeH Guten Cohen, story
development editor, and
husband, Don Cohen,
contributing writer, West
Bloomfield

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