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MU Students Celebrates Chanukah with New Shliach

by Kristen Herhold – Columbia Missourian

Rabbi Avremi Lapine plays Hanukkah music from his iPod at the MU Student Center during a menorah lighting event Monday evening.

Students packed the MU Student Center on Monday evening, most studying and preparing for their final exams. Some, however, were there for a different reason — to celebrate Hanukkah.

Diplomat Who Saved Jews Honored

On the first day of Chanukah, an historic event took place which will forever change the landscape of Boro Park as the famed 13th Avenue acquired a co-name “Raoul Wallenberg Way” honoring the great humanitarian, who saved more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II.