Annual Capitol menorah lighting

(JNS) - Using his "one of a kind" personal menorah, which is made from "shrapnel of rockets that were shot down by the IDF and then smelted together by an Israeli artisan" reminds House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of the "true meaning of Chanukah."

"In the face of darkness, light bursts forth. In the presence of fear, miracles emerge," Johnson said during the second annual Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony on Tuesday. "And in moments of despair, hope springs eternal."

Johnson's menorah, which Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch and founder of a Chabad...