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Gaprevine: Breaking the ice

Nir Barkat visits the site of the upcoming Ice Skating Festival at the old train station.

Jerusalem's ice skating rink
Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem
■ JERUSALEM MAYOR Nir Barkat this week visited the site of the upcoming Ice Skating Festival at the old train station. He inspected the work that has been done to date and said he was looking forward to the festival with great anticipation. One would suspect that his anticipation is not nearly as great as that of the capital’s children, who will demonstrate that ice can be a common denominator for ethnic and religious coexistence.

■ IT’S NOT unusual for youngsters from abroad to celebrate their bar mitzva in Israel. Most of those who come choose to celebrate in Jerusalem or at Masada. The Hazvi Yisrael congregation has had quite a number of such bar mitzva boys, but according to Rabbi Avigdor Burstein, this was the first time in the synagogue’s history that a boy had come all the way from Australia.

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