Tensions Boil Over During Victorian Council Debate to Display Hanukkah Menorah

A motion to support a temporary Hanukkah menorah in the Melbourne suburbs erupted into yelling, warnings and one councillor who found it ‘hard to speak.’

A menorah in front of a Christmas tree in the Galleria Mall in Wallkill on Dec. 6, 2015. Holly Kellum/Epoch Times

Tensions flared at a Victorian council meeting after a councillor effectively blocked a motion for the public display of a Jewish Hanukkah menorah.

Hanukkah is an annual Jewish celebration that marks the miracle of the oil—an occasion where people of the Jewish faith believe God once allowed a single day’s worth of oil to burn for eight nights.