The Chabad Jewish Center of Southern Oregon will light a 10-foot public Hanukkah menorah at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, on the Ashland Plaza.
The event will feature a chocolate coin drop, music, latkes, and donuts. There will also be a Hanukkah gift shop with menorahs and candles for sale. The public event is being heralded as a response to the worrisome rise in antisemitic rhetoric online and elsewhere.
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Ashland councilors Gina DuQuenne and Dylan Bloom on Wednesday gave Southern Oregon University students a lesson in how to express mutual admiration even while disagreeing. The councilors met with 15 students at Britt Hall to discuss voting, Ashland-centered topics and how to bridge the communication gap between the SOU campus and Ashland.
This week’s crossword recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next week’s crossword: “OSF’s Secret Season.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
Review: “Witch,” isn’t exactly a Halloween piece per se, but it is unsettling. And if you like stories that are distinctive, disturbing yet thought-provoking, this might be for you. This is a play where no one is as they seem; where our motives and desires can give rise to good or evil.
Bob Palermini, professional photographer, will give a presentation about photojournalism at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting on October 15 in Medford. He studied photojournalism in college and has been a photographer for Ashland.news since shortly after it debuted in January 2022.
(It’s free)
