Lori Somberg Lighting a Menorah at a Hanukkah Celebration, Coral Gables, Florida, December 19, 1957

Hanukkah celebrates the 164 B.C.E. victory of a small rebel army, the Maccabees, over the Jews' Syrian-Greek oppressors and the miracle of a small amount of oil lasting eight days in the defiled temple's lamp. Just after dark each night of Hanukkah, one additional candle is lit in the menorah, a symbolic candelabrum, until all eight candleholders are filled with light.