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Zoom Bat Mitzvah – COVID-19 Pandemic

From the Jewish Journal: I dislike technology and technology doesn’t like me. So, when my niece Kimberly (my brother Ted’s daughter), who lives in Connecticut, called to ask me if I would do her family the honor of accepting an aliyah at her daughter Julia’s Bat Mitzvah, I immediately said yes. I can’t say I […]

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Epic Zoom Bar Mitzvah

From the Jewish Daily Forward: “We could play a YouTube version of ‘Adon Olam’ to a really catchy tune!” “We could play personal messages for him from family all over the world!” “We could have an Israeli rock star sing him a song!” These were the “What ifs” that drove the conversation between me and […]

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For Some, Zoom Bar And Bat Mitzvahs Highlight ‘Most Meaningful And Memorable Moments’

From NPR: As Gabe Silverman chants his Torah portion, he’s intensely focused on every word. It’s the culmination of months of study and the high point of his Bar Mitzvah service. The same is true for almost every 12- or 13-year-old celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah. “For the Torah service, I was very nervous […]

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How to Throw a Zoom Bat Mitzvah or Zoom Bat Mitzvah

Here’s a great (and very helpful!) article in NY Magazine by Kayla Levy about how to produce a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah on Zoom, the video conferencing app that has dominated the virtual scene during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Having officiated a dozen virtual bar mitzvah and virtual bat mitzvah ceremonies already this […]

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Virtual Bar Mitzvahs During Covid-19 Coronavirus

From the New York Times Becoming a Man, Virtually We couldn’t have guests, but the bar mitzvah ceremony would go on. My son Zane celebrated his bar mitzvah this past Saturday. And to think I had been worried about a late-season snowstorm. A week and a half earlier, when it was clear that the coronavirus […]

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