After lighting the menorah at the beginning of sunset Thursday, Dec. 7, Rabbi Mendel Hertz, right, discusses “light over darkness” to begins the eight days of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Each lamp of the menorah commemorates the Jewish victory over the Syrian armies in 164 BC. Following the war, there was only a tiny bit of oil for lamps for re-dedication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. Miraculously, the lamp burned for eight days. Bob Sofaly/The Island News
After lighting the menorah at the beginning of sunset Thursday, Dec. 7, Rabbi Mendel Hertz, right, discusses “light over darkness” to begins the eight days of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Each lamp of the menorah commemorates the Jewish victory over the Syrian armies in 164 BC. Following the war, there was only a tiny bit of oil for lamps for re-dedication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. Miraculously, the lamp burned for eight days. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

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After lighting the menorah at the beginning of sunset Thursday, Dec. 7, Rabbi Mendel Hertz, right, discusses “light over darkness” to begins the eight days of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Each lamp of the menorah commemorates the Jewish victory over the Syrian armies in 164 BC. Following the war, there was only a tiny bit of oil for lamps for re-dedication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. Miraculously, the lamp burned for eight days. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

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