Twinning Stories

Louis Kirsch twinned his Bar Mitzvah, using the occasion to remember Jeno Breuer - who was born in Hungary in 1931 and perished in the Holocaust before he could turn 13.

Now that I am a guardian of Nutek’s memory, I will make sure he is never forgotten, and when I will read in shul, I will do it partially also for him.

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Barney Leboff, from Shenley wanted to do something more than leyn from the Torah for his Bar mitzvah, so he twinned his Bar Mitzvah with Carol Smulovici, a young Romanian boy who was murdered during the Holocaust.

‘It is amazing to share my Bar Mitzvah with all of you. But now, I want to tell you about a special boy who never had the chance to become bar mitzvah. …

For my son, who is living in the “I” generation — iPad, iPhone, and “I want” — it’s particularly important to connect to his roots, and consider th…