Photos: Las Vegas menorah lighting
Crowds gather during the lighting of the menorah on Fremont Street and Fourth Street on Wednesday, Nov. 27,2013. This year the start of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap. The last time this happen is 1888 and the next is 79,043 years for now.
(Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Students from the Desert Torah Academy gather during the lighting of the menorah on Fremont Street and Fourth Street on Wednesday, Nov. 27,2013. This year the start of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap. The last time this happen is 1888 and the next is 79,043 years for now.
(Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Crowds gather during the lighting of the menorah on Fremont Street and Fourth Street on Wednesday, Nov. 27,2013. This year the start of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap. The last time this happen is 1888 and the next is 79,043 years for now.
(Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A man and a boy walk across Fourth Street and Fremont Street during the lighting of the menorah on Wednesday, Nov. 27,2013. This year the start of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap. The last time this happen is 1888 and the next is 79,043 years for now.
(Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Crowds gather during the lighting of the menorah on Fremont Street and Fourth Street on Wednesday, Nov. 27,2013. This year the start of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap. The last time this happen is 1888 and the next is 79,043 years for now.
(Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Crowds gathered during the lighting of the menorah on Fremont and Fourth streets in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday.
This year the start of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, and Thanksgiving overlap. The festival usually occurs in December but sometimes falls in late November.
