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Title: White House hosts Hanukkah party
Post by: cavegal on December 03, 2010, 11:00:45 AM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1210/festival_of_lights_6a0eaac5-9d95-4019-8531-a9c9ea108061.html

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President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden hosted a party Thursday marking the second day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Obama offered condolences to those who have died in a forest fire in northern Israel before recounting the story of the Maccabees fighting in the Temple in Jersualem watching a day's worth of oil burn for eight.

Title: Re: White House hosts Hanukkah party
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on December 03, 2010, 11:06:08 AM

However, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs later went on to urge Israeli Prime Minister to enact a 90-day freeze on the new lighting of Hanukkah candles as a gesture to Palestinians.