Roberto Friedman
On Nov. 6, Roberto B. Friedman, age 85, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away surrounded by his loving family. His life was defined by devotion...
How B’nai Mitzvahs Have Changed Over the Years
Bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs, also known as b’nai mitzvahs, are a well-known ceremony in the Jewish community that marks the coming of age...
Using Sports to Do a Mitzvah
Yonah Brown runs six or seven times a week and is a cross country athlete for Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School, where he is...
A Year-Long Checklist for B’nai Mitzvah Planning
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...
Hazzan Asa Fradkin Provides Necessary Tools for B’nai Mitzvah Preparation
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...
Ladies and Gents, it’s the Grayden Goldman Bar Mitzvah Show!
Bimah — the focal point of the synagogue where the Torah is read and the rabbi stands — means “stage.”
In December, 13-year-old Grayden Goldman...
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...
Double the mitzvah
With speeches about historic poets and writers, Jewish-Irish history and even some analysis of the modernist novel “Ulysses,” Evian Bloom Guilfoyle and Mischa Blue...
Bat Mitzvah of 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,...