Hanukkah commemorates the Maccabean (Hasmonean) victories over the forces of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes (reigned 175 164 bce) and the rededication of the Temple on Kislev 25, 164 bce.
On Sept. 10, with the first deputy commissioner, William Feehan, Chief Peter Ganci and the Rev. Mychal Judge, all of whom would be dead within 24 hours, he attended the rededication of his old firehouse on Prospect Avenue in the Bronx.
Wilson Theater Ceremony The rededication of the Virginia Theater on Sunday in honor of August Wilson has been opened to the public on a first come, first served basis.
What can be read in Lincoln's features — of his leadership of the Union, his milestone emancipation of slaves, his rededication of American ideals based on the inalienable rights proclaimed by the Declaration of Independence?
A Canadian version has been cast that was originally to be awarded to the Unknown Soldier at the rededication of the Vimy Memorial on 7 April 2007.
Those eight weeks of activities, many of them free, include a rededication ceremony on Oct. 4 and a block party and open house on Oct. 13.
1. Marine One, with US President George W. Bush aboard, prepares to land on the deck of the USS Intrepid prior to the Veterans Day rededication of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, on November 11 , 2008
Having just finished celebrating Hanukkah, we spent eight days opening gifts from loved ones as we commemorated the rededication of the Holy Temple.
Mrs. Van Etten, who organized a rededication ceremony on June 5, said that she hoped the park would be built soon, and that she thought the bowstring bridge and a covered bridge nearby would attract tourists.
According to the Talmud (Shabbat 21b), the ritually pure oil available at the rededication of the Temple was sufficient for only one day's light but miraculously lasted for eight days; hence the eight-day celebration.
