{"id":87,"date":"2008-01-29T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T19:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20080129\/how-the-rabbi-beat-city-hall\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:31","slug":"how-the-rabbi-beat-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/how-the-rabbi-beat-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Rabbi beat City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fair Lawn, Dec. 9 &#8211; An 8-foot-tall menorah has been placed in a yard across from Borough Hall, but even after all its electric candles are lighted, it will not outshine the Borough Hall and its tree, which have hundreds of lightbulbs.<\/p>\n<p>A sign on the menorah &#8211; symbol of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which began Tuesday night &#8211; reads, <strong>&#8220;There will be liberty and justice for all when I am across the street.&#8221;<\/strong> Rabbi Levi Neubort of the Anshei Lubavitch Outreach Center in Fair Lawn has erected what he calls a &#8220;defiant menorah&#8221; on private property facing the municipal building, because borough officials have consistently refused to allow the menorah on town property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this story so delightful! My family happens to know personally the &#8220;rabbi who beat borough hall,&#8221; but we didn&#8217;t know all that his fight entailed. Eventually, the rabbi was able to begin lighting a Chanukah menorah on city hall grounds in 2006. And The Wei family was there for the first lighting!<\/p>\n<p>Jump to full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/157\/story_15783_1.html\">Beliefnet article<\/a>. Originally appeared in The Record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Lawn, Dec. 9 &#8211; An 8-foot-tall menorah has been placed in a yard across from Borough Hall, but even after all its electric candles are lighted, it will not outshine the Borough Hall and its tree, which have hundreds of lightbulbs. A sign on the menorah &#8211; symbol of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/how-the-rabbi-beat-city-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the Rabbi beat City Hall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}