Bar mitzva

Edelman, 33, also said he has attended synagogue during the football season.

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"My two children don't live in Israel and I lost my husband a long time ago," said Bella. "This event was closure for me."

“He remarked that he knows the Shema, and says it sometimes, but he said he is 44 years old and had never put tefillin on in his life,” Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld explained.

‘I am doing this in memory of my family who died in the Shoah.’

“This is our answer to Hitler and Nazism,” Rabbi Toive Weitman, the head of the Sao Paulo Holocaust memorial who led the ceremony, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Fred Behrend had his original bar mitzvah ceremony 80 years ago in Cuba, where his family had fled from Germany before settling in the United States.

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