Belated Bar Mitzvah for survivor

83-year-old Hanoch Shachar, who lost his whole family in the Shoah, fulfilled his dream by celebrating his Bar Mitzva in Safed, Northern Israel. Shachar is a marathon runner and during the ceremony hoisted without effort the Torah scroll in its heavy metal casing.

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-survivor-has-belated-barmitzvah-in-memory-of-family/

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