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LA fires displaced them. But their bar mitzvahs went on.
'This boy is actually allowing us to gather together to celebrate,' Kehillat Israel's cantor said
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- What a remarkable Torah rescued from Iran — then LA’s fire — can teach about community amid devastation
- Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
- ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
- Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
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