Photos of the Week: Abortion at the Supreme Court; Hanukkah commemorations

By Kit Doyle · December 3, 2021

(RNS) - Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes an abortion case at the U.S. Supreme Court, Hanukkah commemorations and more.

Yeshiva students light candles on the fourth day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Orthodox city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against Greek-Syrian occupiers who had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the temple in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, second from right, lights the menorah in the East Room of the White House in Washington, during an event to celebrate Hanukkah, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Others watching are, from left, Jewish community leader Susan Stern, Dr. Rabbi Aaron Glatt, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

People visit a giant Hanukkah menorah during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Tel Aviv, Nov. 28, 2021. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against Greek-Syrian occupiers who had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Volunteers make kimchi, a traditional pungent vegetable dish, to donate to needy neighbors, at a temple in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. About 200 people made 4,000 packets of kimchi, which is made primarily with cabbage, other vegetables and chili sauce. Kimchi is the most popular traditional food in Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A woman prays next to a wild male elephant, one of two killed by a train in Durung Pathar, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Speeding trains have run down dozens of wild elephants in Assam in the past, forcing the Indian Railways, which runs the trains, to regulate speed in known elephant corridors. Assam, which has a history of man-elephant conflict, has an estimated 5,000 wild Asiatic elephants. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Supporters and opponents of abortion rights demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins

Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colorado, holds a sign that reads "Hands Off Roe!!!" as abortion rights advocates and abortion opponents demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. The court was hearing arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Allen Siders, an anti-abortion activist, preaches outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization, a state-licensed abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. A small group of anti-abortion activists stood outside the clinic in an effort to dissuade patients from entering. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case brought by the clinic challenging a state law that would restrict abortion to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Yemeni grooms dressed in traditional attire participate in a mass wedding, held by the Houthis for thousands of couples in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Archival Photos

American Protestant leaders tour Moscow's Red Square in March 14, 1956. The visit, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, came at the invitation of the Patriarch Alexei of the Russian Orthodox Church. Left to right: Charles C. Parlin; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Franklin C. Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; an unidentified interpreter; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council; Archimandrite Pemin of the Russian Orthodox Church; unidentified interpreter; Dr. Hubert Gezork, president of Andover Newtown Theological Seminary; and Paul B. Anderson, secretary of the YMCA International Committee. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.

Officers of the National Black Lay Catholic Caucus confer with local leaders during an executive board meeting in Rochester, New York, in Oct. 1971. From left: John Holmes, New York State chairman; Bob Pitts, national vice-president; Viola Brown, chairman of the Rochester caucus, and Joseph Dulin, national president. Following a two-day meeting, the NBLCC board issued a statement charging a church and state conspiracy against Black people. In commenting on the charge, Dulin alluded to what he called cooperation between several prelates and the mayors and police officials of several large U.S. cities. RNS archive photo by Laurence E. Keefe. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.