100 European boys and girls arrived this week for a bar and bat mitzvah in Israel and celebrated the day at the Western Wall with tefillin for the boys and candlesticks for the girls at the Western Wall plaza. The event was initiated by the Morasha section of the Rabbinical Center of Europe and the Western Wall Heritage Foundation.
Remarks following the historic gathering for the worldwide recitation of “Hear, O Israel”
In our difficult hour, we not only turn our eyes upward, but to one another, strengthening one another, embracing one another, sending strength and prayers and hope to those who need them most.