Share the Simcha Confirmations 2009/5769 Confirming Their Future Synagogues seek innovative ways to keep teenagers on board MELISSA JACOBS Jewish Exponent Feature year-olds is that she likes to learn — about Judaism. “Torah stories. Holidays. W www.jewishexponent.com Jewish customs.” Rosenberg lists things that she’s looking forward to exploring when she hat makes Maya Rosenberg different from many other 13- enrolls in her first year of He- brewhigh school this fall at Har Zion Temple, a Conservative congregation in Penn Valley. She became a Bat Mitzvah on April 18, and decided, with parental encouragement, to con- tinue her studies. “I like being Jewish, and talking about Juda- ism. And I like being in a class with my Jewish friends because we are all — Jewish. That JEWISH EXPONENT sounds strange, but sometimes, you feel like you are different from everyone else.” Getting teenagers to enroll in Hebrew school post-Bar and Bat Mitzvah is not easy, as evidenced by the number of teens being confirmed at many area syna- gogues this month. Shavuot, which begins at sundown on Thursday, May 28, is when many congregational May 28, 2009 1
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