(1 Dec 2010)
Berlin, Germany - 01 December 2010
+++DAY SHOTS+++
1. Wide of rabbis lifting menorah in front of Brandenburg Gate
2. Close up of rabbis lifting the menorah
3. Mid of rabbis
4. Tilt down from menorah in front of the gate to rabbis
5. Close up of rabbis climbing up ladder
6. Wide shot of menorah in front of Brandenburg Gate
7. Mid of rabbis stepping down ladder
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Executive Director of Jewish Education Centre Chabad Lubawitsch in Berlin:
"It will never be really normal the way it was, but our goal is to build a bridge from the past to the future, not in spite of what happened but by remembering the six million people. There is no better way to remember them by then not only concentrating on memorials made out of stone, but more than that by creating an active Jewish life."
9. Close up of menorah in front of top of Brandenburg gate.
Moscow, Russia - 01 December 2010
++NIGHT SHOTS++
10. Wide of Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar singing in front of a giant menorah
11. Mid and vertical tilt Lazar lighting the first candle, or shamash
12. Wide of candle and lights that reads "Hanukkah"
13. Mid shot of Lazar dancing with people
14. Close up of feet people dancing and vertical tilt on dancers
15. Mid shot of dancers
16. Mid shot of fire works and menorah on the background
17. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexander Chicherin, Jewish resident:
"Hanukkah is a fantastic holiday, very happy, very lively. We have been celebrating it for the past few years here at Manezh Square. What is its importance? It celebrates the exodus from Egypt of all our dear Jews."
18. Mid of people dancing
19. Mid of fire works, lights that read "Hanukkah" with menorah and Kremlin on background
20. Wide of people dancing in front of menorah and Kremlin on background
21. Close up on burning candle
STORYLINE:
European Jews on Wednesday celebrated the start of Hanukkah, that begins at sundown.
The tradition, also known as the Festival of Lights, calls for the daily lighting of a candle in the evening throughout the eight days of Hannukah; one flame the first night, the second on the second night and so on until the eighth evening, or Chanukka, when all candles are lit.
In Germany, rabbis celebrated the start of Hanukkah by setting up a six metre (20 foot) tall menorah, a special Jewish candelabrum with eight candleholders in a row, in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg gate.
The gate and the square behind it hold special significance for Germany's Jewish community.
During the Nazi regime it was bedecked with massive Nazi banners and was the scene of many Hitler rallies.
For Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, head of the Jewish Education Centre Chabad Lubawitsch in Berlin, the raising of the menorah was also a way to remember the six million (m) Jews killed in the Holocaust.
"There is no better way to remember them by then not only concentrating on memorials made out of stone, but more than that by creating an active Jewish life," Teichal explained.
The centre has held the ceremony at the Brandenburg Gate since 2003.
In Moscow, below zero temperatures were no deterrent for those celebrating the start of the holiday.
About a hundred Jews gathered in a square near the Kremlin.
They prayed as the rabbi kindled the first light on a giant menorah. The first light, used to light the others, is called the shamash.
Alexander Chicherin, a Moscow resident, said that Hanukkah was a happy celebration. "Hanukkah is a fantastic holiday, very happy, very lively."
"It celebrates the exodus from Egypt of all our dear Jews," he added.

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