Photos: Hanukkah celebrations
Photos of Hanukkah festivities happening from all over the world, including Tucson, Ariz.
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman reaches to install electric candle to the nine foot tall menorah currently at his home at 611 W Cassidy Place on Friday, November 29, 2012 in Tucson AZ. Photo by Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star.
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon and members of the Temple Emanu-El are outside lighting a large Menorah before going back inside for a program that included Hanukka songs, stories, theatricals and dance Sunday December 9, 2012, in Tucson, Arizona. Photo by Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Hanukkah celebrations
The children's group ECE dance and sing during a program at the Temple Emanu-El after the lighting of the Menorah on Sunday December 9, 2012, in Tucson, Arizona. Photo by Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman and his nine foot tall menorah currently at his home at 611 W Cassidy Place on Friday, November 29, 2012 in Tucson AZ. Chabad of Oro Valley is lighting up a 9-foot menorah to celebrate, catering to the growing Jewish population on the NW side. Photo by Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star.
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, centre left, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, right, install a giant Hanukkah Menorah at the Pariser Platz near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. The eight day Jewish Festival of Lights Hanukkah will start on Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, centre left, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, right install a giant Hanukkah Menorah, at the Pariser Platz near the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. The eight day Jewish Festival of Lights Hanukkah will start on Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director Lubavitch Youth Organization and Tamir Sapir, head of the Sapir Organization in New York light the 32-foot-tall menorah that weighs about 4,000 pounds and has real oil lamps, protected from the wind by glass chimneys at the edge of Central Park, in New York, Saturday Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Lubavitch Youth Organization)
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Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, left, of the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in New Albany, prepares to light the menorah with the help Holocaust survivor Abe Weinrib, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. The start of Hanukkah on Saturday night had special meaning for Weinrib, a Holocaust survivor in Ohio who turns 100 next week. As a victim of the Holocaust, "it's a miracle I survived," says Weinrib, who will turn 100 on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center, Laurence Gilbert)
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jew lights the second Hanukkah candle during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in the port city of Ashdod, Israel, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The Jewish festival of light is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Hanukkah celebrations
A member of The Macabees stands in front of the stage as Dreidelman dances during a ceremony to light the National Hanukkah Menorah, during an event sponsored by the American Friends of Lubavitch, on The Ellipse in Washington marking the second night of Hanukkah, in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The eight-day Jewish holiday began at sundown Saturday, Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Hanukkah celebrations
People gather to watch the lightning of the first candle, celebrating the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, on Grzybowski square in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
Hanukkah celebrations
Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich, center, lights the first candle celebrating the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, on Grzybowski square in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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Rabbi Avrohom Sternberg, right, of Chabad of Eastern Connecticut and Congregation Ahaveth Chesed in New London, braces the structure as James Charland, left, Nate Epperson, center, of Rogovin Moving and Storage, install the menorah on Union Plaza in downtown New London, Conn., Monday, December 3, 2012. the 15-foot tall menorah, which Sternberg estimates weighs well over a ton, will be first lit on the second night of Chanukah this Sunday. "I've been helping the Rabbi put this thing up for years and I think it's getting heavier," said Epperson. (AP Photo/The Day, Sean D. Elliot)
Hanukkah celebrations
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, left, Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients, and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov light the National Hanukkah Menorah, during an event sponsored by the American Friends of Lubavitch, on The Ellipse in Washington marking the second night of Hanukkah, in Washington, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The eight-day Jewish holiday began at sundown Saturday, Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Hanukkah celebrations
Lubavitch Rabbi Shimon Hecht looks on as Tom Rosenfeld recites the blessings before lighting a giant Hanukkah menorah organized by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement at Grand Army Plaza in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 8, 2012. Menorahs are lit in observance of the eight day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century B.C. (AP Photo/Marko Dashev, Chabad.org)
Hanukkah celebrations
Yeshiva students celebrate and dance at the start of the annual Hanukkah parade organized by the Lubavitch Yeshiva International School of Chabad Leadership in Oak Park, Mich., Sunday Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John M. Galloway)
Hanukkah celebrations
Yisroel Polter, left, and Schneur Zalman Brown, right, peek through the sunroof of their car as they prepare for the annual Hanukkah parade organized by the Lubavitch Yeshiva International School of Chabad Leadership in Oak Park, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John M. Galloway)
Hanukkah celebrations
A parade car turns on Woodward Avenue during the the annual Hanukkah parade organized by the Lubavitch Yeshiva International School of Chabad Leadership in Oak Park, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John M. Galloway)
Hanukkah celebrations
A menorah, fueled by olive oil, is displayed at Hanukkah Wonderland on Sunday, 12/2/12, in Madison, Wisconsin
Hanukkah celebrations
Children play in the palm themed bounce house at Hanukkah Wonderland on Sunday, 12/2/12, in Madison, Wisconsin
Hanukkah celebrations
From left, assistant director Josh Klemons, UW senior Jeremy Hulkower, and UW sophomore Benjamin Gluck, put final touches on a tiki torch menorah on the front porch of Cafe O at UW-Hillel in Madison, Wis., Thursday afternoon, Dec. 6, 2012. The eight torches will be lit over the course of the eight nights of Hanukkah, beginning this Saturday. M.P. King-State Journal
Hanukkah celebrations
With the White House in the background and the National Christmas Tree at right, people stand for a song at the end of the lighting of the National Hanukkah Menorah, during an event sponsored by the American Friends of Lubavitch, on The Ellipse in Washington marking the second night of Hanukkah in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The eight-day Jewish holiday began at sundown Saturday, Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)