Light the Menorah  Community Chanukah Celebration  Menorahs have
begun an explosion in styles in recent years, and it was a giant
one that several residents lit when Rabbi Mendel Bluming of
Chabad Shul led a community Chanukah celebration at the Cabin
John Shopping Center on Sunday, Dec. 17.  Chanukah, also known
as the festival of lights, is a minor, post-biblical Jewish
Holiday which falls on the 25th of Kislev in the Jewish
Calendar.  The Holiday is a result of the victory of the
Maccabbes, a group of Jewish fighters, over the Syrians in 139
B.C. When the Jewish fighters took back the Temple, they found
only enough oil to keep eternal light burning in the temple for
one day.  The oil lasted for eight days, enough time for more
oil to be acquired.  To commemorate the miracle, Jewish people
light a menorah at sundown on each of the eight nights of the
holiday, lighting one candle the first night, two the second
night, and so on.  It is also traditional to eat latkes (potato
pancakes) because they are fried i