80-Year-Old Woman Becomes a Bat-Mitzvah
September 5, 1987
Erna Salm, a Chicago octogenarian, receives a hearty mazel tov from Rabbi Leo R. Wolkow as she carries the Torah at her Bat Mitzvah at Temple B’nai Yehuda of Homewood IL.
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