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The Jewish festival of lights has dispelled the winter darkness for ages. \u201cThe rabbis going back to Maimonides and earlier felt that the lights of the
\nHanukkah lamp were sacred,\u201d says Susan Braunstein, curator of Judaica at the Jewish Museum in New York. But if you couldn\u2019t afford a gold or silver lamp \u201cyou could use an egg shell, or a nut shell, or a potato carved out.\u201d <\/p>\n

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