Concerns have been raised after a motion to install a menorah for the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah, was delayed at a Stonnington Council meeting on Monday night.

Stonnington local Sarah was at the meeting and told Tom Elliott there was a “huge sigh in the room” when the motion was delayed.

“People were very upset about it,” Sarah said on 3AW Mornings.

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“It felt to me like they were hiding behind terminology such as process, budget and other aspects which really didn’t feel right to me.”

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