Vandalized 4 Times, University of Illinois Community Builds New ‘Miracle’ Menorah

The Illini Chabad menorah at the University of Illinois has been vandalized four times over the course of two years. Through the funding, and active participation of the U of I community, the creation of a avant-garde new campus menorah is reaching completion. The wider community’s involvement has become a crucial piece of the undertaking. This potent willingness of the people to lend a hand in assuring the religious structure stands tall and sturdy, has become something the Chabad house is proud of. Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of Illini Chabad – which services the Jewish community at the University of Illinois & Champaign-Urbana - has united with Professors Benjamin Bross and John Stallmyer, instructors at the School of Architecture, to collaborate on a creative design for the menor