The boys enjoyed a day-long celebration, proceeding down to the Western wall accompanied by their families, where they were called up to the Torah. Over a hundred boys who lost a parent, including ...

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In 1974, two languages dominated the bar mitzvah speech of my father, Joe Mishell, “Yossi” to his family. One was English, but the other was not Hebrew. Like many bar mitzvahs, he read from the Torah ...

Over a hundred boys who lost a parent, including during the October 7 War, celebrated their bar mitzvah in a joint event at the Western Wall on Sunday, Colel Chabad Rabbi Sholom Duchman told The ...