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Barbara Lewis
Contributing Writer
in California with her husband, Steven,
and sons, Asher and Jonah.
"Everybody would moan and groan
about the photo, but then they'd get
their coats on and go outside. We'd
take a picture of us standing around
the menorah, and then it would be
Chanukah," Sheila said.
rendan Newman must have felt
a little bit like Judah Maccabee.
He didn't restore a Holy
Temple lamp, and there was no oily
miracle. But last year, when he replaced
the family's stolen lawn menorah with
one he built himself, he brought back a
Menorah Missing
cherished family tradition.
After Burt died in 2011, Eisenberg's
For about 10 years, the large, wooden son-in-law Gary Naftaly helped her take
menorah stood on the front lawn of the the heavy menorah out of her garage
home of Brendan's grandparents, Burt
and erect it on the front lawn.
Then, in 2012, the menorah disap-
and Sheila Eisenberg, in Simsbury, a
condo community in West Bloomfield.
peared.
"Burt would walk around the neigh-
"It was the fifth or sixth night of
borhood and see all the Christmas dec-
Chanukah," Sheila recalled. "I came
home at 3 p.m. I was in my kitchen for
orations, and he said he wanted to get
something to symbolize our religion:'
a few hours cooking. At 5:30 p.m., it
Sheila Eisenberg said.
was dark so I went out to turn on the
He found a woman in northern
light bulbs on the menorah — and it
Macomb County who agreed to make
was gone!
a menorah lawn ornament. It was 8
"I just stood there with my mouth
feet long and had "Happy Hanukkah"
open. I was devastated:'
painted across the front. The red, yellow
The rest of the family was distraught,
and blue candlesticks were topped by too. Granddaughter Jessica was driving
electric bulbs that were lit as the eight-
day holiday progressed.
"It caused quite a stir:' Sheila said.
Passersby stopped to comment. One
neighbor sent a photo of the menorah
to her son in Las Vegas every year.
More than one person asked if they
could buy it.
It became tradition for the family liv-
ing in the Detroit area to take a group
photo around the menorah at the start
of the holiday: daughter Marcy Newman
with her husband, Alan, and their
children, Brendan, 17, and Courtney,
14; and daughter Tracy Naftaly with
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her husband, Gary, and their children,
This
`menorah
was
stolen from the
Jessica, 21, and Ashley, 19. A third
Ettenberg's
lawn
in
2012.
Eisenberg daughter, Lorey Zlotnick, lives