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Hanukkah Begins As Jews Light Festival of Lights
Religion notes mark Hanukkah starting Tuesday with menorah lighting and prayers in synagogues homes and schools. The eight day festival recalls the Maccabean victory and the oil miracle while traditions include gifts and rededication to religious freedom. Astronaut Gordon Cooper shares a quiet personal prayer during space flight and a New York psychiatrist reports no link between intermarriage and mental distress among Manhattan residents.
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Maccabees
Antiochus Epiphanes
Jerusalem
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
New York University
Thomas S. Langner
East Side
Manhattan
Langner