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Days after several people were held hostage by a gunman at a Texas synagogue, the American Jewish Committee of Cincinnati said it plans to focus on creating local solidarity and training people in tactics the Texas hostages were able to use to escape.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was one of the four hostages held by a gunman at a Texas synagogue on Saturday, was educated and interned in Cincinnati earlier in his career.
Dedicated to the festival of lights, the "Let It Glow" community display will be on view at Rockwern Academy through Dec. 2.
While not a major Jewish holiday, Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights. Cincinnati — the birthplace of Reform Judaism — is getting its first drive-through Hanukkah lights display.
Rockwern Academy leaders said Monday the school hasn't had a single case of COVID-19 spread, crediting in part a new testing strategy - using students' spit.