Festival: Rabbi Eli Brackman
MORE than 100 people went to Broad Street in Oxford last Friday to see the lighting of a candle to mark the final day of the Jewish Festival of Lights.
A candle had been lit on the tallest menorah in Oxford - a nine-branched candlestick - every day for the previous nine days to celebrate the beginning of Hannukkah, the annual festival to commemorate the defeat of Syrian Greeks by Jewish warriors.
The menorah in Oxford is 12ft tall although many people across the county have been lighting much smaller ones in their homes to celebrate the festival.
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