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Moscow’s Jewish community is celebrating the eight day long Festival of Lights.

The major Jewish holiday Hanukkah, which dates back more than two thousand years, is marked with the lighting of a Menorah.

In Russia, which has a Jewish population of more than 200,000, festivities are well underway.

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