December 13, 2009: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel lights the National Menorah in front of the White House. The ceremony marks the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, which commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 164 B.C. after its destruction by the Syrian-Greeks.
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