A year ago, on Feb 18, 2023, former President Jimmy Carter, the longest living U.S. head of state, entered home hospice care. In the year since, he lost his wife Rosalynn and celebrated his 99th birthday. This year also marks 50 years since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, launched the Chanukah awareness campaign in the winter of 1973. Six years later, in 1979, President Carter inaugurated the National Menorah outside of the White House, a milestone event which helped popularize similar public menorah lightings around the United States and the world.