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bat mitzvah celebration was held at Bris Avrohom of Old Bridge on Sunday, May 27. Five girls who attended the
Chaya Esther Hebrew School program at Bris Avrohom for several years participated in this commencement celebration
with their close family and friends in attendance. Previously, each young lady was formally given her Hebrew name in
a naming ceremony held during the Torah reading of Shabbat morning services.
The girls, Rafaela Maller, Rochelle Fleisher, Erica Finkelstein, Rachel Kabotyansky, and Deborah Bakshiyev, spent the last year in Hebrew School focusing their learning on the specific role of women in Judaism. They completed in-depth reports based on months of learning and research.
At the program, each girl spoke about what she had learned and thanked her parents and Bris Avrohom for their years of dedicated guidance. Awards were handed out and each bat mitzvah girl received a silver candlestick.
The program included a lavish luncheon, speeches by Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky, executive director of Bris Avrohom;
Rabbi Yossi Kanelsky, regional director; and a poignant talk by one girl's mother who felt that she, herself,
had become a bat mitzvah that day as well. It was a meaningful and beautiful event.
OZERI. Yehuda and Wendy Ozeri of North Plainfield are proud to announce the bat mitzvah of their daughter, Enbar Leigh Ozeri on June 16, 2007, at Union County Torah Center.
Enbar is the sister of Eitan and Evan.
Grandparents are Carla Polakowski of Lake Forest, California, and Irving and Jane Brown of Warren, New Jersey.
Following services, a kiddush will be held in honor of Enbar. The celebration will continue with a pool party and barbeque at Enbar's grandparents' house in Warren, New Jersey.
Enbar is in 6th grade at Somerset School, North Plainfield, New Jersey.
Special activities and honors: Dancing since age 4 at Miss Kim's School of Dance, selected as 6th-grade student representative for end of the year school party, graduated SSDS-Cranford Campus in 2006.
VON ELLEN. Jamie and Martin Von Ellen, of Cranford, celebrated the bar mitzvah of their son, David, on May 26, 2007, at Temple Shaarey Shalom, Springfield.