from Obama Food-o-rama blog ( http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/ )
President Obama will celebrate Hanukkah with a White House reception this Thursday, Dec. 13, the sixth night of the eight-day holiday. Each year, the menorah used for the President's candle-lighting is loaned to the White House, and has symbolic significance that ties in to the Jewish story of overcoming vast challenges. This year's brass, 90-year-old menorah is being loaned by Temple Israel of Long Beach on Long Island, New York, which was decimated by Hurricane Sandy. A hurricane-surviving menorah is something of an Obama tradition: In 2010, the President's guests lit candles on a menorah borrowed from a New Orleans temple, reclaimed after Congregation Beth Israel was ravaged by Katrina.
http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2012/12/president-obama-to-host-hanukkah-party.html
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