Emigre exuberance: Group of 18 celebrates a joyous b’nai mitzvah in Marin
- JFCS in the Media
J Weekly
by Steven Friedman
Yelena Mozeson couldn’t help thinking of her late grandfather as she stood, overlooking the audience, on the day she became a bat mitzvah.
“All my Jewish memories are from him,” said the 55-year-old native of Riga, Latvia, whose grandfather died when she was a teen.
“My parents weren’t religious or observant, but I started to wonder a few years ago what Judaism was all about. I really wanted to know more about what was my grandfather’s world.
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