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Lydia March Swartz, daughter of Jennie Guilfoyle and Mark Swartz, will become a bat mitzvah on June 17 at the Silver Spring Civic Center. Lydia is a member of Machar, the Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, and has been attending Machar’s Jewish Cultural School for six years. For her bat mitzvah project, Lydia is exploring theatrical portrayals of Shylock, the notorious moneylender in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” Lydia loves theater and has acted in many plays put on by Lumina Studio Theatre.

