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LA fires won’t stop bar mitzvahs this Shabbat, as joy and pain meet
The bar or bat mitzvah, marking a Jewish child’s entry into adulthood, is a culmination of months of advance planning and study, and because the most common rite of passage — reading from the ...
The Forward23d
LA fires displaced them. But their bar mitzvahs went on.
There he gently placed the Torah scroll that had been rescued from Congregation ... It was a makeshift dress rehearsal for what will be a makeshift bar mitzvah: Or Ami, a Reform synagogue in ...
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Bahrain’s Jewish community celebrates its first bar mitzvah in 16 years
The bar mitzvah boy read from a Torah scroll donated by Jared Kushner, who helped broker a normalization agreement between Bahrain and Israel. (JTA) — The Jewish community of Bahrain celebrated ...