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Masked Men Disrupt Chanukah Ceremony with Nazi Flags

By Linda Conner Lambeck for the Connecticut Post
Top right, Rabbi Shlame Landa of Chabad of Fairfield. Bottom, three pseudo nazi’s, their faces covered in masks wave Nazi flags.. (Phil Noel/ Staff photographer)

FAIRFIELD — Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirts of a small group of families huddled on the Sherman Green gazebo to light a menorah on the third night of Hanukkah Sunday.

Neither did three masked men, who carrying Nazi flags and shouting obscenities, tried to disrupt the ceremony until they fled when police arrived.

Rahm Emanuel Lights U.S. National Menorah

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel lit the National Menorah in front of the White House Sunday evening in celebration of Chanukah. The ceremony marked the 30th anniversary of the first National Menorah lighting in 1979 attended by then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter.