A sacred tradition meets social distancing
Photo: Joe McKendry After New York banned nonessential gatherings, some Jewish tweens preparing for their bar or bat mitzvah began moving their ceremonies to Zoom. Kayla Levy, a Park Slope–based b’nai-mitzvah tutor and Strategist writer, spoke to clergy members from six synagogues across the city and six bar and bat mitzvahs about how to pull off this important rite of passage remotely, from implementing virtual l’dor v’dors to tracking down Torahs from shuttered shtiebels.
➽ Keep your tutor in your ear. At her rabbi’s suggestion, Jordan Michaels wore an AirPod during her ceremony and stayed on the line with her Hebrew school’s principal to mimic the minute-by-minute support that she would have received from the clergy during an in-person ceremony. “It was helpful, even though our connection was delayed, because I got stuck once while reading from the Torah and she was singing it with me over the phone,” says Jordan.
➽ Speaking of themes, don’t abandon them. Jordan’s ceremony was against a backdrop of her parents’ chuppah — the canopy from their marriage ceremony — and $200 worth of balloons in her canceled party’s color scheme: teal and lavender.
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