…Mitzvah Memories GEOFF KRETCHMER, a partner in Star Trax and Local Kitchen & Bar, celebrated his bar mitz- vah at Temple Emanu-El on April 11, 1980. His strongest memories are of the party. “My parents rented out the Huntington Woods Rec Center, which was smaller in those days; there was a fireplace room con- nected to a game room,” he said. “We had the whole place for me and my friends and didn’t have to compete with the neighborhood kids f...…
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…Mitzvah Prep Practice Makes Perfect Time and effort — the only way to prepare for b’nai mitzvah. STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER O ne piece of advice that b’nai mitzvah tutors share with new students and their parents: To be successful on the big day, nothing takes the place of practice to master the required prayers and Torah and haftarah chanting it takes to earn one’s rite into Jewish adulthood. Ideally, preparations to become a ba...…
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