Did you know that Irvine ‘Irv’ Robbins (1917-2008), co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, opened his first ice cream store using money he saved from his #BarMitzvah! Born in Winnipeg to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Robbins grew up working in his father’s ice cream parlor in Tacoma, Washington. He always finished the day happy […]
#MazalTov to Ruben Golran on his Bar Mitzvah! Ruben is in Milan, Italy. All the Synagogues in Milan are closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak. With 500 guests invited from around the world, Ruben’s Bar Mitzvah party had to be cancelled, while the Torah reading portion proceeded as scheduled. Let’s all […]
13-year-old Rafi Niman from Borehamwood, England solved 13 Rubik’s cubes in 3 mins 40 sec at his bar mitzvah earlier this month in a bid for Jewish Child’s Day – JCD charity! All money raised will go towards helping an Israeli boy with special needs celebrate his own bar mitzvah. […]
Did you know that Irvine ‘Irv’ Robbins (1917-2008), co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, opened his first ice cream store using money he saved from his #BarMitzvah! Born in Winnipeg to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Robbins grew up working in his father’s ice cream parlor in Tacoma, Washington. He always finished the day […]
On the eve of Menachem Haberman’s bar mitzvah in 1940, Hungarian troops committed a pogrom near his town synagogue in Munkács. Menachem’s father was taken away and the rest of the family was later deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters were immediately sent to the gas chambers. In 1945, […]
Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg, 93, shares the same birthday as his grandson Barry, 39. “I did not have a Bar Mitzvah before World War II, but In 1980 my grandson, Barry, was born. It was my birthday and then 13 years later we had our Bar Mitzvahs together.”
Last week, Yaakov Weksler (b. 1943) had his Bar Mitzvah in the Yad Vashem Synagogue. A former Polish Catholic priest, Yaakov (formerly Romuald Waszkinel) discovered at age 35 that he was in fact the son of Jews killed in the Holocaust. In the hopes of saving their infant son’s life, […]
Good Morning from Eilat “My son Jeremy putting on his Tefillin in Eilat on the Fourth of July.” @heavenonthetable
Johnny Jablon began preparing for his bar mitzvah in Poland in the summer of 1939. A month later, the Germans invaded. Now 92 years of age, Jablon returned to Poland for the first time since World War II to finally celebrate his bar mitzvah. Born the second of three sons […]
WATCH: A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor receives a Bar Mitzvah A month before Samuel Heider was to be bar mitzvahed World War II broke out. When the Nazis invaded Poland, where the 93-year-old lived in a small village, his family was separated and sent to concentration camps. His parents, sisters and brothers […]
“Today, during Channukah, my son was called to Torah before what remains of our Temple in the reestablished Jewish State – Israel. “Ti-kon Beit T’fi-la-ti V’sham To-da N’za-bei-ach” – Restore my House of Prayer and there we will bring a thanksgiving offering. #NesGadolHayaPo #AmYisraelChai #Shehechiyanu#TearsOfJoy”
Mabrook, Mazal Tov, Congratulations: Elie Esses!
“A pair of socks, notepad and pen, lotion, a few snacks, a bottle of water, tissues and chapstick. I asked the nurse if a group of students made these for the patients. She said that it was a teenage boy who did this for his bar mitzvah celebration. She really […]
BEST ONE SO FAR!! WATCH: The Very First Bar Mitzvah Mannequin Challenge “I’m a Bar Mitzvah Motivator. I’m always looking for ways to spice up any party I go to so when something as awesome as the #MannequinChallenge is spreading we had to take it on! We got everyone involved, […]
Yisrael Kristal celebrated the event last weekend, reading the Torah and enjoying the company of his family, who danced, sang and threw candies. But Mr. Kristal was surrounded at the ceremony in southern Israel by his two surviving children, nine grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. He is 113, and he had […]
This photo was taken at last year’s 112th Birthday. Today, Yisrael is celebrating his 113th birthday which will be followed by his first Bar Mitzvah celebration. When Kristal was 13 which is the standard Bar Mitzvah age, he was unable to mark the special occasion due to the first World War. This […]
The world’s oldest man, 113-year-old Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor living in Israel, will celebrate his bar mitzvah. He missed his bar mitzvah due to World War I. Born on Sept. 15, 1903, in the town of Zarnow, Poland, Kristal moved to Lodz in 1920 to work in his family’s candy […]
When we were walking the streets of Tsfat, I came across a Bar Mitzvah celebration. The boy, I’m not sure of his name, had just finished his temple services and they were walking outside singing and dancing to Hava Nagila. I could not talk to them as I don’t know […]
“We made to the top of Masada!?. We did it! We came to Israel this year for our bar mitzvahs. Every year our Mashadi Jewish Community schedules a trip for all the bar and bat mitzvah Boys and girls. We went to many different places in Israel and toured a […]
The Bar Mitzvah Fund was created to provide financial assistance to disadvantaged families with the expenses for the Jewish ritual of becoming Bar Mitzvah. A Bar Mitzvah is when a Jewish boy turns thirteen and becomes responsible for fulfilling all of the biblical commandments. The fund assists parents with the […]
Not only will his kindness make the bond between Israel and America stronger, but it will create a life-changing program for these children. Source: The Israel Project
“Huge Mazel Tov to my new #rolemodel @_super_avi on his amazing #barmitzvah last night! Your perseverance and courage is beyond worlds, you surpass most of us a moment! Just watching you is utterly inspiring! Keep up the fight and in just a short while this will all be a distant […]
“My name is Tony Westbrook and this past Shabbat (10/24/15) I became Bar Mitzvah’d and celebrated my 28th birthday. I converted 4 years ago and simply becoming Jewish wasn’t enough, I wanted more. I wanted to become a bar mitzvah! I wanted to truly embrace traditions and the mitzvot fully. […]
“As part of my upcoming Bar Mitzvah celebration I have decided to raise money for the FIDF – Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Unfortunately, Israel is currently under attack and the videos and reports that we see daily are terrible. Thankfully, the IDF is there to protect the […]
Actor James Franco posted this to his social media pages: “✨I am now a MAN!✨ Got Bar Mitzvahed tonight!!!❤ Finally!”
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“I volunteered to photograph a Bar Mitzvah for 11 Ethiopian kids and had no place for my own 5 year old daughter so I brought her along. This little guest and my daughter just found each other and happily posed together for the camera as if they’d known each other […]
