{"id":6816,"date":"2018-11-20T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/11\/20\/hanukkah-at-the-white-house"},"modified":"2019-10-07T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T08:40:14","slug":"hanukkah-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/11\/20\/hanukkah-at-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EiUJ_xcS9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This post presents video clips from the annual White House Hanukkah party, in which special guests are hosted at the official residence of the President of the United States for a celebration of the Jewish Festival of Lights, including a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony, traditional festive foods and speeches. The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1EiUJ_xcS9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first video (02:22)<\/a> features highlights from the 2014 celebration with former president, Barack Obama, in which the Hanukkah menorah lit was created by students at the Jewish-Arab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handinhandk12.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hand-in-Hand School<\/a> in Jerusalem. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QGshuu3Y8P8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second video (07:33)<\/a>\u00a0is from the 2017 celebration, where President Donald Trump addresses the crowd with a message of support and appreciation for the Jewish people and religion and the State of Israel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGshuu3Y8P8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents video clips from the annual White House Hanukkah party, in which special guests are hosted at the official residence of the President of the United States for a celebration of the Jewish Festival of Lights, including a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony, traditional festive foods and speeches. The first video (02:22) features highlights from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3769],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13834,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions\/13834\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}