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Zoe Becker
Zoe Becker Zoe Becker will celebrate her bat mitzvah on Feb. 6 at Adas Israel Congregation. Zoe is the daughter of Ben and Judy Becker of Washington; big sister of Andy Becker; and granddaughter of...
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Jonah Eli Udler
Jonah Eli Udler Jonah Eli Udler, son of Jen and Josh Udler of Potomac, and brother of Jacob and Shoshanna, will become a bar mitzvah on Feb. 20, Parshah Terumah (Zachor), at both the Chabad Shul of...
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Sampling the bar mitzvah speech
Philip Davis and his family celebrate his bar mitzvah at Temple Rodef Shalom on June 30. (Photo courtesy of Senior Cantor Michael Shochet) The bar or bat mitzvah speech is an opportunity for the child...
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Here’s how to plan a pandemic bar/bat mitzvah
Photo courtesy of Lisa Schrier When the world shut down last March as fear spread that the coronavirus was as lethal as it was unknown, Ben Pollack was days away from his bar mitzvah. Everything was...
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Zoe Shrank
Zoe Shrank Zoe Shrank, daughter of Miriam Vogel and Will Shrank, became a bat mitzvah on April 3 at Adas Israel Congregation. Zoe is the granddaughter of Judith Barnett, Don Vogel and Ella and Harry...
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Benjamin ‘Benji’ Whiting-Eisemann
Benjamin ‘Benji’ Whiting-Eisemann Benjamin “Benji” Whiting-Eisemann will celebrate his bar mitzvah on April 24, virtually at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation. Benji is the son of Vanessa...
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Talia Ruth Stein
Talia Ruth Stein Talia Ruth Stein, daughter of Dr. Robyn Miller and Stephen Jacob Stein and sister of Maya Eve Stein, will become a bat mitzvah on June 5 via livestream by Washington Hebrew...
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Sasha Rose Karp, daughter of Annie Tobin Karp and Brett Karp and sister of Jonah Karp, will become a bat mitzvah on Aug. 28, at Temple Beth Ami in Rockville. Sasha is a rising eighth grader at Hallie...
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Bat Mitzvah of Shana Zocchi
Shana Zocchi Shelly and Mitch Zocchi, of Springfield, Va., and members of Congregation Adat Reyim, are proud to announce the bat mitzvah of their daughter, Shana, on Oct. 2. Shana has been attending...
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Double the mitzvah
Evian Bloom Guilfoyle, left, and Mischa Blue Ehart Rogin With speeches about historic poets and writers, Jewish-Irish history and even some analysis of the modernist novel “Ulysses,” Evian Bloom...
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Bat mitzvah Eve Berger Eve (Chava Gabriela), daughter of Liz and Jon Berger, was called to the Torah at B’nai Israel, in Wilmington, N.C., on April 2. In addition to sharing her simchah with her...
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B’nai Mitzvah
Evan Benjamin Silberglied Evan Benjamin Silberglied (Ezra Binyamin), son of Steve Silberglied and Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied, became a bar mitzvah at B’nai Israel Congregation on Nov. 19. He is the...
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Ladies and Gents, it’s the Grayden Goldman Bar Mitzvah Show!
Grayden Goldman. Photo by Photo by Judy Carton Www.joodycartonphotography.com Bimah — the focal point of the synagogue where the Torah is read and the rabbi stands — means “stage.” In December,...
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Hazzan Asa Fradkin Provides Necessary Tools for B’nai Mitzvah Preparation
Hazzan Asa Fradkin. Photo by Allison Brown. Hazzan Asa Fradkin knows the stressors and joys of planning a b’nai mitzvah as he regularly works with local tweens preparing for their milestone 13th...
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A Year-Long Checklist for B’nai Mitzvah Planning
Courtesy of Suzy Hazelwood via Pexels. Planning your child’s b’nai mitzvah can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. By getting an early head start, you can square away some of the more...
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Using Sports to Do a Mitzvah
Seventh grader Yonah Brown organized “Fun Run for Magen David Adom” in Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Rabbi Randy Brown. Yonah Brown runs six or seven times a week and is a cross country athlete for...
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