UNITED STATES IS ON THE RISE SINCE THE WAR STARTED. TODAY MARKS THE FIRST DAY OF HANUKKAH. THE JEWISH FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS RUNS FOR EIGHT DAYS, COMMEMORATING THE REDEDICATION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. AND PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING AT BAYSHORE TOWN CENTER IN GLENDALE TONIGHT. 12 NEWS CYREIA SANDLIN JOINS US LIVE FROM THE CELEBRATION IN CYREIA JEWISH LEADERS SPOKE WITH YOU TODAY ABOUT SAFETY AT HOME DURING THE WAR ABROAD. WHAT’S UP? THAT? JOYCE PATRICK HANUKKAH IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT HOLIDAY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE OUT HERE CELEBRATING AT BAYSHORE. NOW, EARLIER TODAY, I SPOKE WITH A JEWISH MAN WHO TOLD ME THAT THIS YEAR, MORE THAN EVER, THE HOLIDAY HAS A NEW MEANING FOR LEO. KLEINER PROUDLY DISPLAYS A MENORAH IN THE WINDOW OF HIS FAMILY’S FOX POINT HOME. WITH SO MUCH ANTI-SEMITISM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, DID YOU EVER HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT DISPLAYING YOUR MENORAH THIS YEAR? NO. I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO BE PROUD OF WHO WE ARE. THIS HANUKKAH HAS A DIFFERENT MEANING. IT MEANS CELEBRATING BEING JEWISH, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE TIMES THAT WE’RE IN WITH THE WAR GOING ON IN ISRAEL AND WITH ALL THE ANTI-SEMITISM GOING ON, IT’S ESPECIALLY MEANINGFUL ALL THIS YEAR. I’M THE PROUD SON OF TWO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS WHO ARE NOW, UNFORTUNATELY HAVE PASSED. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH TO WHEN THEY WERE IN POLAND AND IN GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND KLEINER WAS SHAKEN AFTER A RECENT NEO NAZI MARCH THROUGH THE STREETS OF MADISON BECAUSE HIS SON IS A STUDENT. THERE. I DON’T NECESSARILY WORRY ABOUT MY SAFETY. I DO WORRY ABOUT I HAVE A SON THAT GOES TO THE UW MADISON VERY SCARED AND I WENT TO UW MADISON AS WELL AND NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I HAVE IMAGINE AND SEEING THAT ON CAMPUS. MEANWHILE, RABBI LEVI STEIN SAYS FOR SOME, HANUKKAH COMES WITH AN UNEASY FEELING. THIS YEAR. DO YOU THINK THAT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FEELS SAFE RIGHT NOW IN MILWAUKEE? NO, NO. I WAS JUST TALKING TO SOMEONE JUST BEFORE YOU CAME, AND SHE SAID, OH, WE’RE GOING TO GET THE MENORAH AND PUT IT UP BY HER WINDOW. AND HER 12 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER SAID, WHY SHOULD WE PUT A MENORAH ON OUR WINDOW? SOMEONE’S GOING TO THROW A STONE THROUGH IT. YOU CAN’T FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM WITH FEAR. IT’S JUST NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO RESPOND. YOU HAVE TO FIGHT DARKNESS WITH LIGHT AND THAT’S WHAT HANUKKAH IS ALL ABOUT. AND CYREIA WE CAN SEE ALL THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE BEHIND YOU. THERE ARE OTHER HANUKKAH EVENTS THIS WEEK, PATRICK. ON SUNDAY IS THE GRAND MENORAH PARADE THAT STARTS AT 4 P.M. IN MEQUON AND COMES THROUGH