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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lights a Hanukkah menorah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. The Jewish festival of light, 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/Ariel Schalit)
Photo by Ariel Schalit