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Rabbi in Dix Hills, N.Y., eager to meet the boys’ touching requests for a ceremony
For parents of children with special needs, day-to-day activities come with a host of challenges. Balancing various therapies can eat up hours and energy. When it comes time for the traditional Jewish rite of passage for boys, a bar mitzvah, it sometimes ...
Lauder School students are joined by families and friends from Europe and around the world
Joined by their families from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and Ukraine—and their friends and fraternity brothers from around the world—five young men from the Lauder Business School in Vienna were called to the Torah and celebrated their bar mitzvahs las...
A man in his 50s discovers his heritage, wraps tefillin for the first time
As a Chabad rabbi, I’ve learned early that you never know where and how you’ll meet a Jewish soul on its way home. I just came back from spending six weeks in South Africa, where I had volunteered for Chabad’s “Change Our World for Good” campaign. A chief...
In western Pennsylvania, a 13-year-old exemplifies what generosity and Jewish values are all about
Jesse Kaufman was approaching his bar mitzvah this past August at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroeville, Pa., and while he was prepared in most ways, he was missing one thing: a meaningful project. “I taught Jesse that a bar mitzvah project shouldn’t en...
Discovery in Ukraine Inspires a Community
When a large number of human bones mixed in with pages containing Hebrew words were discovered at a building site in the town of Netishyn, Ukraine, the few local Jews turned to the only rabbi they knew for assistance.
Be’er Sheva, Israel’s ornate Pyramid Synagogue hosted a joint bar mitzvah ceremony for dozens of public school students, replete with a choral performance.
Some 50 boys and girls celebrated their entry into Jewish adulthood in a joint ceremony at S. Petersburg, Russia’s famed Great Choral Synagogue.
Uzhgorod, Ukraine, first celebrated the circumcision of 13-year-old Yisrael Krilati. One week later, it marked his bar mitzvah.
The Federation of Jewish Communities’ Military Branch organized the Bar Mitzvah of Russian cadet Oleg Tkacha.
Wesley Baer, born with Down syndrome, a genetic condition in which an extra chromosome causes varying degrees of mental retardation, celebrated his bar mitzvah at Chabad-Lubavitch
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