Happy Hanukkah -- with a tribute to Daniel Pearl

By Bridget Johnson on December 10, 2007 5:52 PM | | Comments (0) |

ruthjudea.jpgEncino residents Judea and Ruth Pearl lit the Pearl family menorah at the White House tonight. The menorah dates back to Judea Pearl's grandfather, Chaim Pearl, who was cited in the last words of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded in Pakistan in 2002: "I am a Jewish American from Encino, California. My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish. Back in the town of Bnai-Brak there is a street named after my great-grandfather Chaim Pearl who is one of the founders of the town."

Below, Ruth Pearl gets a nice smooch from the prez...

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