COLLIVE.COM AP Covers Largest Menorah

The World's Largest Menorah was lit by Rabbi Shmuel Butman and real estate mogul Tamir Sapir, AP reported. By COLlive reporter 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, the Associated Press reported. Not surprisingly, the celebrations mentioned by the world's largest news agency were the visible ones organized by Chabad. "In New York City, Jews celebrated the holiday's start with the ceremonial lighting of a 32-foot-tall menorah at the edge of Central Park," the newswire dispatched to its affiliates.