Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of June 12, 2020
Zelda Levin celebrates 103 years Zelda Levin celebrated her 103rd birthday on June 6 at home with her children, Ken (Darlene) Levin and Carol Ann (Robert)…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of May 29, 2020
Births It’s a Boychik! Levi Simon Knapp was born May 11, 2020. His happy parents are Talia and Sam Knapp and his big sister is Liav Brea Knapp. His proud…
Community
Cheerin’ for Zerin: Local rabbi celebrates 100th birthday
Rabbi Ed Zerin had a lot of parties this month. He had one with some Chabad rabbis from his Torah study class (“They sang me ‘Happy Birthday’ in Hebrew,”…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of May 15, 2020
B’nai Mitzvah Leo Herzl Wornick, son of Cristina and Jonathan Wornick of Lafayette, became a bar mitzvah on Saturday, April 25 via Zoom. Rabbi Jennie…
Mixed & Matched
My son’s bar mitzvah has to be postponed due to Covid-19. What should I do?
Dear Dawn: My son Joey’s bar mitzvah was scheduled for June of this year and now it can’t happen as planned. Our synagogue is closed. Some of my son’s…
Religion
A virtual bar mitzvah party — in a Minecraft replica of local synagogue
Virtual b’nai mitzvahs are a part of life now. The kid reads Torah and delivers a d’var Torah, often over Zoom, to an audience of friends and family. But…
Lifecycles
PHOTOS: Drive-by car parade celebrates a socially distant bar mitzvah
Though they can’t hold in-person ceremonies, some families with planned b’nai mitzvahs are going ahead with virtual ceremonies held over Zoom. But friends…
Religion
Orthodox Jews find creative workarounds for b’nai mitzvahs
During the coronavirus pandemic, many bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies in the Bay Area and around the globe are being streamed online, while others have…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of April 17, 2020
Weddings Mazel tov to Steven Michael Eliscu and Roxanne Alicia Woodward, who were married on Feb. 29 at Congregation Torat-El in Ocean Township, New…