NEWS: In a state with few Jews, free ‘Hanukkah kits’ aim to combat antisemitism

The kits were created by people whose children are often the only Jews in their class or school

Montana has among the fewest Jews — and the most hate groups — per capita of any state. Hanukkah, a group of Montana Jews decided, presents an opportunity to combat bigotry in general and antisemitism in particular. Their target audience: school kids.

The Jewish group, an all-volunteer force working out of the Montana Jewish Project, the initiative that earlier this year reclaimed a once-active synagogue and made it into the state’s only Jewish center, is stocking Hanukkah kits with books, dreidels, chocolate gelt and lesson plans on tolerance.

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