Forty youngsters from an immigrant absorption center in Tzfat (Safed) and eight others from the United Kingdom jointly marked their Bar and Bat-Mitzvahs in Jerusalem on Monday morning.
Gathering at the 80-year-old Yeshurun synagogue, located alongside the Chief Rabbinate offices in the heart of the capital, the boys and girls symbolically took their places as full-fledged, and fully obligated, members of the Jewish community.
Gathering at the 80-year-old Yeshurun synagogue, located alongside the Chief Rabbinate offices in the heart of the capital, the boys and girls symbolically took their places as full-fledged, and fully obligated, members of the Jewish community.