Crowdsourced Menorah Lights Up Needham Common
Outside of Town Hall last night, the Chabad Jewish Center lit their crowd-sourced menorah
This holiday season is lighting up Needham Town Hall. In October, the Chabad Jewish Center partnered with Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) to host a Menorah design contest. Contestants built a virtual Menorah using PTC's Creo product design software and submitted it for judgement. The Center chose one menorah to be made and lit on the Town Common next week, during the Jewish holiday of hanukkah. The winner, Levi Krinsky, 12, chose the prize of $500 cash (and declined an iPad). "The shape of the menorah actually ties into the message of the light of the menorah: that the light of the menorah of the Temple of Old, and the light of our hanukkah menorah is about spreading light into the street, and into the dark places of the world." …
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