For the 41st year in a row, the community came together to light a menorah on Boston Common for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
“Light has a special quality,” said Rabbi Chaim Prus of Chabad of Downtown Boston, which hosted the event Wednesday, the first of Hanukkah’s eight nights. “Light pushes away the darkness naturally.”
The holiday marks a time of rededication and celebrates religious freedom and freedom from oppression…