SummaryCaption: "Traditional ceremony--Six-year-old Aryeh Zeidman, a student attending the Crown Heights Yeshiva, 310 Crown St., offers a prayer over the first [Menorah] candle marking the beginning of Chanukah tonight, Others in the picture are, left to right, Assemblyman Stanley Steingut, City Budget Director Abraham D. Beame, benefactors of the Yeshivah, and Rabbi Joseph M. Baumol, dean. They were the guests of Harold M. Jacobs, president and chairman of the dinner to be given by the Yeshiva to Mr. Beame in the Hotel Roosevelt March 30."
NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Dec. 19, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle; photo by Murray Quitko. Title from inscription on verso.
SubjectFasts and feasts -- Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hanukkah ; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York ; Legislators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Menorah -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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