Article: THEATER: WELCOME HOME.(Tempo)

Byline: TARA SOMERVILLE

Ruben Duran found out he was Jewish when he was building a mud house on some land he had inherited, outside Albuquerque. Foraging for materials in the remains of his great-grandmother's house, he found some weathered old wood that might be useful.

"So I start pulling, separating the wood from the adobe and out popped a mezuzah ... it fell out of there, kind of a little metal box with a round cylinder. And inside, rolled up is a little scroll, which contains the shammat, which is, of course, the most important prayer to the Jewish people," explains Duran.

Like artifacts from an adobe wall, the history of New Mexico's ...

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