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Congratulations, B'nai Mitzvah Class of 2011

celebrating their bar/bas mitsvahs
on June 19, 2011

More information about our B'nai Mitsvah program

The goal of the Peretz Centre's two-year b'nai mitzvah program is to ensure Jewish continuity through teaching Jewish culture and traditions. All children with Jewish family ties are welcome.

During the two-year program, the children explore many aspects of Jewish history and culture, including topics such as the Ten Commandments, holidays and traditional foods, pogroms, the Holocaust, social justice, famous Jews, Israeli history and current affairs, Jewish humour, etc. For their ceremony, the children prepare a research project on a topic of their choice. The students' topics are listed beside their names.

Students and the topics they chose for their final papers: Front row, l–r: Jonathan Granirer: Israeli sports; Julian Levy: Holocaust denial: what it is and why does it happen; Noah Berson: Bagels and the Bagel Bakers Union. Back row, l–r: Joshua Mathewson: The differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry; teacher Richard Rosenberg; Sheldon Jackson: Who is a Jew? With focus on William Shatner, Jack Black, Albert Einstein, Adam Sandler and himself; Saydie Bubniw: Jewish holidays, customs and food. Inset: Matreya Scarrwener: Alice Herz-Sommer; Absent: Sam Lando: The Jewish holidays from my family’s perspective.

Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture

6184 Ash Street
Vancouver BC V5Z 3G9
tel 604-325-1812
fax 604-325-2470
info@peretz-centre.org

B'ney Mitsva handbook for students and families (PDF document; 113 kb)