BOSTON (AP) -- Top state officials and a local rabbi are expected to attend a ceremony to light the Statehouse menorah.
Gov. Deval Patrick, House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray are scheduled to join Rabbi Rachmiel Liberman for a ceremony at the Grand Staircase at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
The lighting of the 18-foot menorah marks the arrival of Hanukkah.
The ceremony will include music performed by students from the Schecter Day School and is open to the public.
In addition, a 22-foot menorah is scheduled to be lit on the Boston Common.
Mayor Domenic Sarno is scheduled to attend the lighting of a menorah in Springfield's Court Square.
Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, commemorates the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees after their victory over the Syrians.
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