CANDLES BURN BRIGHT FOR HANNUKA IN WARSAW
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday December 15, 2009
The candles of an eight-metre menorah burn in front of the Palace of Culture, Warsaw, in a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday. Right: an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands in front of a menorah at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem. The festival is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century, BC, against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple.
© 2009 Sydney Morning Herald
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