On Monday, a scribe in Reno began writing Hebrew letters on a parchment scroll in a manner handed down from the time of Moses.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth,” the scribe wrote.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth,” the scribe wrote.
Jews in Northern Nevada and around the world lit the first candle on the menorah and told the story of what happened in 165 B.C. when Jewish soldiers recaptured the Temple of Jerusalem from the Greeks and Syrians, who had forbidden them from practicing their religion.