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Connecticut: Masked Nazis disrupt Hanukkah ceremony with Nazi flags, obscenities

Connecticut: Masked men disrupt Hanukkah ceremony with Nazi flags, obscenities
— Connecticut Post reports:
“Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirts of a small group of families huddled on the Sherman Green gazebo to light a menorah on the third night of Hanukkah Sunday.”
— “Neither did three masked men, who carrying Nazi flags and shouting obscenities, tried to disrupt the ceremony until they fled when police arrived.
— “The men, dressed in black, showed up just as the ceremony was beginning, stayed on the sidewalk about 20 yards from the gazebo. Each carried a flag held in outstretched arms. One flag bore a swastika, another an iron cross.”
— Rabbi Shlame Landa to Connecticut Post: “I told my wife, Miriam, on the way home, if (the masked men) came out in the rain, how much more does it say that we have to be there,” he added. “We really had to be there tonight. If not, they would have won half the battle.”

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Rabbi Shlame Landa of Chabad of Fairfield prepares to light the candle on a 9 foot Menorah at Sherman Green in Fairfield. Sun. Dec. 13, 2009. (Connecticut Post/ Phil Noel/ Staff photographer)

Rabbi Shlame Landa of Chabad of Fairfield prepares to light the candle on a 9 foot Menorah at Sherman Green in Fairfield. Sun. Dec. 13, 2009. (Connecticut Post/ Phil Noel/ Staff photographer)