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In face of terror, Paris Jews gather for public menorah lighting at Eiffel Tower
December 7, 2015 09:46
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Just weeks after terrorists murdered 130 people on the streets of Paris, an estimated 6,000 people gathered at the Eiffel Tower to watch the lighting of a 30-foot-tall menorah on the first night of Chanucah in defiance of official warnings to keep a low profile.
The annual public lighting ceremony – organised by Paris Chabad – was particularly poignant this year.
“This year, Chanucah delivers a particularly relevant message,” said Rabbi Chaim Schneur Nisenbaum of the Complexe Scolaire Beth Haya Moushka school system in Paris. “In Paris, we very recently faced terrible attacks ... intended to put an end to the freedom of mind and opinion. In the historical times of Chanukah, the invaders of the land of Israel, the Greeks, had the same intention. But the Jews did not submit.
“They knew that light is stronger than obscurity, and that nobody can douse it.”
