White House Official Lights 2011 National Menorah
source: http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1718145/jewish/White-House-Official-Lights-Nation...
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Thank goodness for seperation of church and state! I wonder if this was a taxpayer-funded event?
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As he did last year, Jacob Lew, who as director of the Office of Management and Budget is the highest-ranking Jewish official in the Obama administration, ushered in the eight-day holiday of Chanukah Tuesday night by lighting the National Menorah.
Flanked by Rabbis Abraham Shemtov, the Philadelphia-based chairman of the umbrella international organization Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and Levi Shemtov, the Washington director of American Friends of Lubavitch, Lew was hoisted to the top of the towering structure in a cherry picker. With the White House in the background and the sun going down, he lit the candelabra’s first candle.
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski also attended the celebration.
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As he did last year, Jacob Lew, who as director of the Office of Management and Budget is the highest-ranking Jewish official in the Obama administration, ushered in the eight-day holiday of Chanukah Tuesday night by lighting the National Menorah.
Flanked by Rabbis Abraham Shemtov, the Philadelphia-based chairman of the umbrella international organization Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and Levi Shemtov, the Washington director of American Friends of Lubavitch, Lew was hoisted to the top of the towering structure in a cherry picker. With the White House in the background and the sun going down, he lit the candelabra’s first candle.
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski also attended the celebration.
