Colel Chabad holds annual bar mitzvah ceremony for children who have lost parents

• Published date: 18 April 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The event is held annually on the Jewish date of Nissan 11, the Hebrew birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher rebbe

Each participant received his own set of tefillin as well as new clothes for the occasion.

Following the ceremony, the families were hosted at Jerusalem's International Convention Center and treated to a three course meal and concert.

A life-long memory

One young man, Refael, came with his mother from Haifa for the occasion. When Refael was seven, he lost his father to cancer. He and his mother are also...