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Hanukkah festivities begin with candle lighting

By Ian Deitch
Published December 9, 2012 5:48am ET
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Hanukkah festivities begin with candle lighting
Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director Lubavitch Youth Organization, right, and Tamir Sapir, head of the Sapir Organization in New York light the 32-foot-tall menorah that weighs about 4,000 pounds and has real oil lamps, protected from the wind by glass chimneys at the edge of Central Park, in New York, Saturday Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Lubavitch Youth Organization) | AP

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jews around the world ushered in the eight-day Hanukkah festival Saturday evening, lighting the first candles of ceremonial lamps that symbolize triumph over oppression.

In Israel, families gathered after sundown for the lighting, eating traditional snacks of potato pancakes and doughnuts and exchanging gifts.

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