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Beth El Binah celebrating Hannukah
LIGHTING FOR THE FESTIVAL | Members of Beth El Binah light menorahs in honor of Hannukah
Festival of Lights marks Maccabean
revolt, rededication of temple
[ JAVID TAFFFT I Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com
The eight-day Jewish celebration of Hannukah
begins on Friday, Dec. 11 at sunset.
Congregation Beth El Binah, the Jewish syna-
gogue that meets at Resource Center Dallas, cele-
brates the holiday at Friday night services^ with
the lighting of the first candle. Then they gather
at a member's home in Piano for a Hannukah
party on Sunday, Dec. 13.
Diane Litke, president of Congregation Beth El
Binah, explained that Hannukah celebrates the
rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at
the time of an uprising by the Maccabees, a Jewish
rebel army, against the Greek empire.
The battle took place in 165 B.C. The Jewish
Maccabees, with just 6,000 fighters, defeated the
Assyrians, who had more than 40,000 soldiers.
The Jews: recaptured and rededicated the temple
in Jerusalem.
Several hundred years later, while the Jews
were living under Roman rule, the story was cre-
ated of enough oil to light the temple for only one
day miraculously lasting for eight days.
To hide the celebration of a battle victory by a
small indigenous tribe over a much larger occu-
pying army, they developed the story of "the mir-
acle, of Hannukah."
In a temple, a ner tamid, or eternal light, burns
above the ark where the holy scrolls are stored. The
story says that when the Jews rededicated the temple,
they only had enough oil to keep the lamp burning
for one day. Miraculously, it stayed lit for eight days,
To celebrate, Jews light the chanukiah or meno-
rah, a nine-branched candelabrum. One candle is
lit on the first night, two on the second, until the
last night when all eight are illuminated. The
ninth candle is used each night to light the others.
Litke said that because of the story of the oil,
the foods associated with the holiday are usually
fried. The two most common are latkes (potato
pancakes) and souvganiot (jelly doughnuts). ■
PARKER, From Page 8
orientation is of interest to the LGBT community,
Parker has stuck to the issties during her campaign.
Gasper said that her orientation was not an issue
during the phone banking.
"Not one person we spoke with asked about An-
nise's sexuality. They were concerned about issues
affecting their family and their city. We talked about
economic development and jobs* transportation
and crime. Annise's experience as a city coun-
cilmember and city controller makes her the right
person for the job," Gasper said.
Earlier in the runoff, anti-gay Houston activist
Steven Hotze endorsed a slate of candidates for the
seven runoffs. Several asked not to be included and
others accepted the endorsement while noting that
they do not accept intolerance. Publicly, Locke, who
has a good record on LGBT issues, was hedging on
whether or not to accept the Hotze endorsement.
But this week The Houston Chronicle linked
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mailer. Parker pointed out that coordinating mail-
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mittee violates state election finance law.
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Hotze." She said either he is lying or lost control of
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lead the city from day one in office," Brooks said.
In other election news, Dallas had two runoffs
for school board positions this week. In District s,
which includes Uptown, Bernadette Nutall beat
Sally Cain. In District 3, Bruce Parrott beat incum-
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