May 25, 2006 • Page Image 110
…Mazel Toy! Never Too Late Pogroms, war don't stop Irvin Forman's bar mitzvah dream. Leonard Poger Special to the Jewish News I rvin Forman, who will be 100 years old this sum- mer, didn't have much chance for a bar mitzvah when he was the traditional age of 13. He and other Jews in Czarist Russia were too busy fleeing at least three pogroms at the start of World War I and the invad- ing German army.. It wasn't until six months ago that hi...…

















































