A Torah All their Own - The Columbian - WA

Now the Vancouver rabbi is undertaking another Torah adventure. Chabad Jewish Center literally opened a new chapter Friday evening when a visiting scribe carefully inked the first few characters on a new piece of unblemished parchment. While it’s the first Torah written for the local Jewish community, it pursues a tradition that goes back 3,220 years to Moses, Greenberg told the members of the group. “We have a chance to be part of that chain,” Greenberg said.

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