Judaica on View During Hanukkah at Metropolitan Museum

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Hebrew Bible on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK---The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates Hanukkah—the Jewish Festival of Lights, through the evening of December 5—with two medieval depictions of the Temple menorah are on view at . Additional works of Judaica will be on view during and after the holiday. The menorah, an elaborate ceremonial lamp with seven branches, was among the furnishings of the Temple in Jerusalem. Its form considered to be divinely ordained, the menorah has been a recognized symbol of Judaism from ancient times.