Youth called to Torah




Ben Salzman

Ben Salzman


Benjamin Salzman, son of Linda and David Salzman of Calabasas, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Sat., Jan. 18 at Temple Judea in West Hills. A seventh grade honor student at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, Benjamin plays the saxophone for the middle school jazz lab.


Sophia Eve Shoshana Schwartz, daughter of Terese Pencak Schwartz of Westlake Village and Michael D. Schwartz of Newhall, celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on Sat., Jan. 11 at Temple Judea’s Tarzana campus. She’s an eighth-grader at Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills, where she’s been studying violin and performing in the school’s orchestral programs. In honor of her grandmother, a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor who passed away last year, Sophia pledged to donate some of her Bat Mitzvah monetary gifts to the Jewish Foundation for Rescuers, as a special financial assistance donation to Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who is responsible for rescuing many Jewish children during the Holocaust.


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