With each explosive argument and battle that Jared’s* parents fought, the young boy longed all the more for the torment to end. Yet their bitter divorce proceedings plunged him into an even worse nightmare. The Boys Town Jerusalem seventh grader could no longer bring himself to think about his upcoming Bar Mitzvah, which he’d looked […]
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No one could think about Lavi’s bar-mitzvah The last thing Lavi’s family could think about was his upcoming bar-mitzvah. For the past year, their world has revolved around his father, whose cancer is swiftly progressing. Lavi’s mother quit her job six months ago to give her husband 24-hour care, in addition to the demands of […]
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This is Rafi*; he’s a miracle child. Rafi and his twin sister were born after years and years of fertility treatments. It’s wonderful, but Rafi struggles with the fact that his father is in his mid-60s. All of his friends have younger parents, and the 13-year old is embarrassed of his own. He often refers […]
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During the last decade of her long life, pianist Ruth Coruh had only one student, Gavri Kepets of Teaneck, NJ. When Gavri, now 19, left for a year’s study in Israel last summer, he took along a top-quality electronic piano keyboard in order to continue studying “long distance” with his beloved teacher. This April, 97-year-old […]
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A few months ago, 7th grader Ori* asked our Junior High Principal, Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz, if he could have his bar mitzvah in school. “No one will come, except maybe my aunt,” he told the rabbi. Being on his own is not new for Ori When he was just a toddler, Ori’s mother left him […]
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