Someone Else's Simcha / Sharon Shaya's bat mitzvah – Logging off long enough to grow up

She may be Google-generation, but one girl shows that rites of passage, and the values they represent, can still matter.

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 18:33 24.02.13 |

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She may be Google-generation, but one girl shows that rites of passage, and the values they represent, can still matter.

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