Pictures of the Week: December 4 – 10, 2004

Light Up the Menorah
Israeli soldiers from the Nahal Brigade light candles on a Menorah as they celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah. Known as the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah commemorates both the 164 BC re-dedication of the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the re-establishment of religious freedom for the Jewish people after a period of harsh repression