Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:00 pm | Updated: 12:55 pm, Thu Dec 29, 2011.
Chabad of Rego Park celebrated the start of Chanukah on Tuesday with the lighting of a 16-foot tall menorah on the triangle at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and 67th Road.
The ceremony commemorates a miracle more than 2,000 years ago when the Jews, after years of oppression, went to rededicate the temple in Jerusalem. They found only enough oil in the temple to last for one night. It lasted for eight.
The congregation will light a new light every night through Dec. 27.
Posted in Central on Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:00 pm. Updated: 12:55 pm.
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