Bat Mitzvah Dance at Detroit Synagogue Goes Viral 25 Years Later

Shelby Kaufman, a native Metro Detroit Jewish woman has gone viral after the Today Show on NBC picked up her viral TikTok video, which over 7 million people watched. Shelby made a side-by-side video of her original bat mitzvah dance and a recreation of her doing the same dance 25 years later. Shelby returned to her home synagogue, Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, Michigan to shoot the “throwback video.”

Adat Shalom Synagogue is also where The Mitzvah Rabbi, Rabbi Jason Miller, celebrated his own bar mitzvah.

Shelby Kaufman’s Viral Bat Mitzvah Dance at Adat Shalom Synagogue accompanied by MC Jon Layne