{"id":597,"date":"2011-06-08T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T01:44:10","slug":"religious-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 60.0px Monotype Corsiva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 40.0px Franklin Gothic Book; min-height: 46.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Franklin Gothic Book} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Franklin Gothic Book; min-height: 34.0px} --><\/p>\n<!-- index.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-2fc91ffeeb5678f30a80286c8e410c65-1\">\n\n    \t<div class=\"slideshowlink\">\n        <a href='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/slideshow'>[Show as slideshow]<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rlfront.jpg\"\n               title=\"Jewish religious life is centered in both the home and the synagogue.  Some important practices, like the Passover seder, provide opportunities for families to spend time together.  Other rituals, such as reading from the Torah scroll, require a communal gathering.\r\n\r\nBecause these rituals are essential to Judaism, Jewish communities in Maine generally established synagogues as soon as they grew large enough to do so.  Over the years Maine\u2019s Jewish communities have witnessed the modernization of synagogue rituals and the transformation of family traditions.  These objects and photographs reflect some of the religious traditions that have been important to Jews in Maine.  What are these traditions?  How have they changed over time?\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Curated by Jena Hershkowitz \\&#039;12&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rlfront.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rlfront.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"36\"\n               data-title=\"Religious Life\"\n               data-description=\"Jewish religious life is centered in both the home and the synagogue.  Some important practices, like the Passover seder, provide opportunities for families to spend time together.  Other rituals, such as reading from the Torah scroll, require a communal gathering.\r\n\r\nBecause these rituals are essential to Judaism, Jewish communities in Maine generally established synagogues as soon as they grew large enough to do so.  Over the years Maine\u2019s Jewish communities have witnessed the modernization of synagogue rituals and the transformation of family traditions.  These objects and photographs reflect some of the religious traditions that have been important to Jews in Maine.  What are these traditions?  How have they changed over time?\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Curated by Jena Hershkowitz &#039;12&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"religious-life\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Religious Life\"\n                    alt=\"Religious Life\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rlfront.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl3.jpg\"\n               title=\"There were only six Jewish families in Bangor when that city became home to Maine\u2019s first synagogue in 1849.  The establishment of Ahavas Achim reflects the need of this small group of German Jews to gather as a religious community. The synagogue closed in 1856, after most of its members left Maine.\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of the Bangor Public Library&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl3.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl3.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"32\"\n               data-title=\"Ahavas Achim synagogue record book\"\n               data-description=\"There were only six Jewish families in Bangor when that city became home to Maine\u2019s first synagogue in 1849.  The establishment of Ahavas Achim reflects the need of this small group of German Jews to gather as a religious community. The synagogue closed in 1856, after most of its members left Maine.\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of the Bangor Public Library&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"image-51\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Ahavas Achim synagogue record book\"\n                    alt=\"Ahavas Achim synagogue record book\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl3.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl5.jpg\"\n               title=\"At the turn of the 20th century, a group of Jewish men in Portland gathered daily to study Mishnah and other works of Jewish law.  This is one of the books they used. \r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl5.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl5.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"34\"\n               data-title=\"Chevra Mishnayos (The Mishnah Club)\"\n               data-description=\"At the turn of the 20th century, a group of Jewish men in Portland gathered daily to study Mishnah and other works of Jewish law.  This is one of the books they used. \r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"image-53\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Chevra Mishnayos (The Mishnah Club)\"\n                    alt=\"Chevra Mishnayos (The Mishnah Club)\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl5.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl6.jpg\"\n               title=\"The Torah scroll, which contains the Five Books of Moses, is the most sacred object in Judaism.  This embroidered cloth mantle covered one of the Torah scrolls at Shaarey Tphiloh, which was Portland\u2019s largest synagogue in the early twentieth century.  \r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Congretation Shaarey Tphiloh&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl6.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl6.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"35\"\n               data-title=\"Torah mantle\"\n               data-description=\"The Torah scroll, which contains the Five Books of Moses, is the most sacred object in Judaism.  This embroidered cloth mantle covered one of the Torah scrolls at Shaarey Tphiloh, which was Portland\u2019s largest synagogue in the early twentieth century.  \r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Congretation Shaarey Tphiloh&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"image-54\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Torah mantle\"\n                    alt=\"Torah mantle\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl6.jpg\"\n                    width=\"51\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                                    <br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n                    \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-4\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/torahdedications.jpg\"\n               title=\"Torah scrolls have been written by hand in the same way for over\r\n1000 years. The completion and dedication of a new Torah scroll\r\nis cause for a major communal celebration. &lt;\/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/videos\/shaarey-tphiloh\/\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_self\\&quot;&gt; Watch a\r\nvideo&lt;\/a&gt; of a third Torah dedication ceremony, at Portland\u2019s Shaarey\r\nTphiloh synagogue in 1955.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of the Bangor Public Library (Beth Israel) and &lt;a title=\\&quot;Maine Historical Society\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.mainehistory.org\/\\&quot;&gt;Maine Historical Society&lt;\/a&gt;[2009.236.004] (Bet Haam)&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/torahdedications.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_torahdedications.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"93\"\n               data-title=\"Two Torah dedication ceremonies:  Beth Israel, Bangor, 1930, &lt;p&gt;Bet Haam, South Portland, 2006&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-description=\"Torah scrolls have been written by hand in the same way for over\r\n1000 years. The completion and dedication of a new Torah scroll\r\nis cause for a major communal celebration. &lt;\/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/videos\/shaarey-tphiloh\/&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt; Watch a\r\nvideo&lt;\/a&gt; of a third Torah dedication ceremony, at Portland\u2019s Shaarey\r\nTphiloh synagogue in 1955.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of the Bangor Public Library (Beth Israel) and &lt;a title=&quot;Maine Historical Society&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.mainehistory.org\/&quot;&gt;Maine Historical Society&lt;\/a&gt;[2009.236.004] (Bet Haam)&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"two-torah-dedication-ceremonies-beth-israel-bangor-1930-bet-haam-south-portland-2006\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Two Torah dedication ceremonies:  Beth Israel, Bangor, 1930, &lt;p&gt;Bet Haam, South Portland, 2006&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n                    alt=\"Two Torah dedication ceremonies:  Beth Israel, Bangor, 1930, &lt;p&gt;Bet Haam, South Portland, 2006&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_torahdedications.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"40\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-5\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/saltcover.jpg\"\n               title=\"Certain important Jewish prayers can only be recited in the\r\npresence of ten people, a minyan. In the East End, where\r\nmost of Portland\u2019s Jews lived in the early 20th century, only\r\none synagogue remains. Etz Chaim continues to hold regular\r\n\r\nservices, and most of the time they get a minyan.\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of &lt;a title=\\&quot;Maine Historical Society\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.mainehistory.org\/\\&quot;&gt;Maine Historical Society&lt;\/a&gt;[4199]&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/saltcover.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_saltcover.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"95\"\n               data-title=\"Waiting for a minyan Etz Chaim Synagogue, Portland, 1991\"\n               data-description=\"Certain important Jewish prayers can only be recited in the\r\npresence of ten people, a minyan. In the East End, where\r\nmost of Portland\u2019s Jews lived in the early 20th century, only\r\none synagogue remains. Etz Chaim continues to hold regular\r\n\r\nservices, and most of the time they get a minyan.\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of &lt;a title=&quot;Maine Historical Society&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.mainehistory.org\/&quot;&gt;Maine Historical Society&lt;\/a&gt;[4199]&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"waiting-for-a-minyan-etz-chaim-synagogue-portland-1991\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Waiting for a minyan Etz Chaim Synagogue, Portland, 1991\"\n                    alt=\"Waiting for a minyan Etz Chaim Synagogue, Portland, 1991\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_saltcover.jpg\"\n                    width=\"57\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-6\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl4.jpg\"\n               title=\"&lt;p&gt;\u201cWherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.\u201d \u2014 Ruth 1:16&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\nThis scroll, a copy of the Book of Ruth, was handwritten on calfskin parchment by a specially\r\ntrained scribe using a quill and ink. The date and place of its creation cannot be determined\r\neasily because scrolls like this have been made in exactly the same way for over 1000 years. Waterville\u2019s Beth Israel synagogue probably acquired this scroll in the first half of the 20th century.\r\n\r\nToday, few synagogues chant the Book of Ruth, a traditional feature of the Shavuot (Pentecost)\r\nholiday. Fewer still have scrolls like this from which to read Ruth. Rockland\u2019s Adas Yoshuron synagogue, which does possess a scroll, instead uses copies of this book, an artistic printing of\r\nRuth. The illustrator, Leonard Baskin, summered regularly in the Midcoast region.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Scroll of the Book of Ruth: courtesy of Beth Israel Congregation&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Five Scrolls&lt;\/em&gt; (1984), illustrated by Leonard Baskin: courtesy of George J. Mitchell Department of\r\nSpecial Collections at Bowdoin College&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl4.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl4.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"33\"\n               data-title=\"Tradition and the modern world\"\n               data-description=\"&lt;p&gt;\u201cWherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.\u201d \u2014 Ruth 1:16&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\nThis scroll, a copy of the Book of Ruth, was handwritten on calfskin parchment by a specially\r\ntrained scribe using a quill and ink. The date and place of its creation cannot be determined\r\neasily because scrolls like this have been made in exactly the same way for over 1000 years. Waterville\u2019s Beth Israel synagogue probably acquired this scroll in the first half of the 20th century.\r\n\r\nToday, few synagogues chant the Book of Ruth, a traditional feature of the Shavuot (Pentecost)\r\nholiday. Fewer still have scrolls like this from which to read Ruth. Rockland\u2019s Adas Yoshuron synagogue, which does possess a scroll, instead uses copies of this book, an artistic printing of\r\nRuth. The illustrator, Leonard Baskin, summered regularly in the Midcoast region.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Scroll of the Book of Ruth: courtesy of Beth Israel Congregation&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Five Scrolls&lt;\/em&gt; (1984), illustrated by Leonard Baskin: courtesy of George J. Mitchell Department of\r\nSpecial Collections at Bowdoin College&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"image-52\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Tradition and the modern world\"\n                    alt=\"Tradition and the modern world\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl4.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-7\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/minsky-seder_2.jpg\"\n               title=\"Courtesy of the Bangor Public Library\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/minsky-seder_2.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_minsky-seder_2.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"111\"\n               data-title=\"Minsky family Passover Seder, Bangor, 1940s\"\n               data-description=\"Courtesy of the Bangor Public Library\"\n               data-image-slug=\"minsky-family-passover-seder-bangor-1940s\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Minsky family Passover Seder, Bangor, 1940s\"\n                    alt=\"Minsky family Passover Seder, Bangor, 1940s\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_minsky-seder_2.jpg\"\n                    width=\"95\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                                    <br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n                    \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-8\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl2.jpg\"\n               title=\"Unlike the Hanukkah menorah, which has nine branches, this seven-branched menorah represents the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. This menorah was probably used to decorate a synagogue in Aroostook County, since its present owner found it at an antique shop in Eastport. &lt;\/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\\&#039;http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/06\/4_Item-4.mp3\\&#039;&gt;Listen to more about this menorah&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Suzanne Jones&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl2.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl2.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"31\"\n               data-title=\"Menorah\"\n               data-description=\"Unlike the Hanukkah menorah, which has nine branches, this seven-branched menorah represents the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. This menorah was probably used to decorate a synagogue in Aroostook County, since its present owner found it at an antique shop in Eastport. &lt;\/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#039;http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/06\/4_Item-4.mp3&#039;&gt;Listen to more about this menorah&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Suzanne Jones&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-image-slug=\"image-50\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/religious-life\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"Menorah\"\n                    alt=\"Menorah\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl2.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-9\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl1.jpg\"\n               title=\"The lighting of candles on Friday evening ushers in the Jewish Sabbath. These contemporary candlesticks were made by Edgecomb Potters.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of David M. Freidenreich and \r\nSara Kahn Troster&lt;\/p&gt;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/rl1.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/168\/files\/religious-life\/thumbs\/thumbs_rl1.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"30\"\n               data-title=\"Shabbat candlesticks\"\n               data-description=\"The lighting of candles on Friday evening ushers in the Jewish Sabbath. These contemporary candlesticks were made by Edgecomb Potters.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of David M. 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