Keywords: Bar Mitzvah
Item 53998
Bar mitzvah invitation, Portland, 1957
Contributed by: Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh Date: 1957-06-22 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 6823
Irving Pinansky Bar Mitzvah portrait, Portland, 1929
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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"… for coming-of-age ceremonies called a bar or bat mitzvah. In some rural congregations, the Rabbi and cantor were the same person."
