In the News ... "Synagogue marks Hanukkah"

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• Rabbi: Families will light one candle per day for the next eight days

Staff Report
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Temple Beth El members [last night began] celebrating Hanukkah, the annual “Festival of Lights,” in commemoration of the defeat of the Seleucid Empire by the Jewish Maccabees and their rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Jordan Parr said families will light one candle per day for the next eight days on candelabrums called menorahs in remembrance of the “Miracle of the Oil,” in which a flask, with only enough oil to burn for a day, stayed lit for eight days during the temple’s rededication ...

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