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The White House is seen during the annual national Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony on the White House Ellipse, Dec. 1, 2010, in Washington. Hanukkah marks the eight-day Jewish celebration of the Festival of Lights.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama host a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Thursday Dec. 2, 2010, in Washington. Seen at right is Vice President Joe Biden.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama host a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Thursday Dec. 2, 2010, in Washington.
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A Jewish woman distributes sweets near a Menorah in front of the Gateway of India monument during Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010.
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Young Jewish boys chant the Hanerot Halalu, a blessing in honor of the candles, after lighting a 12-foot menorah at Yeshiva of South Bend in South Bend, Ind., on Dec. 1, 2010.
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Rabbis install a giant Hanukkah Menorah at the launch of Hanukkah at the Pariser Platz, near the Brandenburg Gate, in central Berlin on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
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A menorah is lit during the first day of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Dec. 1, 2010.
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Cuba's President Raul Castro lights a Hanukkah candle during a ceremony at the Bet Shalom synagogue in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010.
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The National Menorah is lit for the first night of Hanukkah on the National Mall on Dec. 1, 2010, in Washington.
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Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar lights a giant menorah in the center of Moscow on Dec. 1, 2010, to usher in Hanukkah celebration across Russia.
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Israel's Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, right, lights candles with Israeli soldiers to celebrate the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah at a military base on Dec. 1, 2010, near Nahal Oz, Israel.
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Leader of the Jewish Chabad Lubavicsi community, rabbi Baruch Oberlander, right, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, left, light a candle of a giant menorah on the first day of Hanukkah at Nyugati Square in Budapest on Dec. 1, 2010.
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Members of the Jewish community dance during a public lighting of a giant menorah in the center of Moscow on Dec. 1, 2010, to usher in Hanukkah celebration across Russia.
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Members of the Hungarian Orthodox Jewish community dance at the beginning of the Hanukkah Festival in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010.
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Yossi Shapiro, dressed like a Maccabee, during the National Menorah lighting in celebration of Hanukkah on the Ellipse near the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, in Washington.
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, top right, looks on as Rabbi Chaim Prus, center left hand only, director of Chabad House of Greater Boston, lights the center light on a 20-foot-high Hanukkah menorah on the Boston Common, near the Statehouse, in Boston, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
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Eli Pereira holds a child's menorah during the Hanukkah celebration at Chabad of Virginia on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
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Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal lights a menorah on the sixth day of Hanukkah at the Orthodox synagogue at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Education Center on Dec. 6, 2010, in Berlin.
