Mall to Make Room for Sacred Amid Shopping

Times Union
Rabbi Yaakov Weiss hopes to have a large menorah displayed in the Colonie Center Mall

Colonie, NY — It wouldn’t be the holiday season without a dust-up over religious expression in a public space.

This year, once again, that space is Colonie Center.

And, once again, rumors circulating about the mall muzzling religious expression appear to be unfounded.

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Jewish Programs Help Keep Faith Alive

Reno Gaztte Journal

Since the end of World War II, assimilation, intermarriage and the distractions of the secular world have fractured the Jewish community in ways our patriarchs never envisioned. Recognizing this as a threat to our very survival as a faith and as a people, leaders of Jewish communities throughout the world have reached out to young and old, affiliated and unaffiliated, observant and not as observant in an attempt to reacquaint them with their faith, their traditions and their history.