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Celebrating a Bar Mitzvah at 98 Years Old

In the early hours of Sunday, June 15, as ballistic missiles soared from Iran into Israel, their impact was felt more than 5,000 miles away across the world, on the Atlantic seaboard of Massachusetts. That day, Rabbi Levi Lezell, director of Chabad of the South Shore, received a phone call from the Bay Path Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.

Chabad Brings a Jewish Revival to West Adams

Once home to a bustling Jewish community in the 1920s — including Beth Jacob, now the largest synagogue on the West Coast — the historic South Los Angeles neighborhood of West Adams changed over the decades as Jewish families moved to areas like Beverly Hills. For many years, West Adams didn’t have a synagogue or Jewish center of any sort. But recently, a new wave of younger families has begun moving in, including many Jews drawn by the neighborhood’s affordability and central location.