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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A menorah is lit during the first day of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Dec. 1, 2010.
Cuba's President Raul Castro lights a Hanukkah candle during a ceremony at the Bet Shalom synagogue in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010.
The National Menorah is lit for the first night of Hanukkah on the National Mall on Dec. 1, 2010, in Washington.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Members of the Hungarian Orthodox Jewish community dance at the beginning of the Hanukkah Festival in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010.
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.
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.
Eli Pereira holds a child's menorah during the Hanukkah celebration at Chabad of Virginia on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
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.