Bnai Mitzvah

B'nai Mitzvah

Beth Israel Bar Mitzvah date not known
Confirmation Class, Temple Beth El 2 date not known
Lubec's First Bar Mitzvah date not known
Lubec's First Bar Mitzvah date not known
Musical Directors of the Sunday Bar Mitzvah “Frehlich” Morris Cox and Ruthie Lerman date not known
Sacknoff Bar Mitzvah : Group photo date not known
Max Wolf : Two 1886 Articles from the Daily Eastern Argus 1886
Sidney Davidson Bar Mitzvah 1920
Bar Mitzvah congratulations 10/08/32
Sidney Unobskey, Bar Mitzvah Preparation 1945
Bar mitzvah of Sidney Unobskey, Calais, ca. 1950 c. 1950
Nathan Cohen Bar Mitzvah 1950
Jewish Community Center Bar Mitzvah Freilach “FRONT and CENTER” 1951
Jewish Community Center Bar Mitzvah Concert 29-Jan-52
Temple Beth El-Confirmation Class 1952 circa
Confirmation Class, Temple Beth El 1 ca1954
Mickey Miller on his Bar Mitzvah Day with William S Cohen and Robert Cohen 1954
Beth Jacob Confirmation Class Group Photo with Rabbi Berent 1955
Paula Rolsky Bat Mitzvah Couple's Dance 1 mid 1950's
Stephen Levine's Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Elm Hotel, Lewiston 1955
Three Girls in Front of Bima at Etz Chaim 1955
Eddie Miroff Bar Mitzvah circa 1956
Pinchik Zimelman Bar Mitvah invitation June 22, 1957
Richard Fisher Bar Mitzvah Reception Group Photo 1 1957
Richard Fisher Bar Mitzvah Reception Group Photo 2 1957
Richard Fisher Bar Mitzvah Reception Group Photo 3 1957
Richard Fisher Bar Mitzvah Reception Group Photo 4 1957
Richard Fisher Bar Mitzvah Reception Group Photo 5 1957
Richard Fisher Bar Mitzvah Reception Group Photo 6 1957
Beth Jacob Confirmation May 23 1958
Beth Jacob Confirmation Class Group Photo with Rabbi Berent 1958
Temple Beth El Confirmation and Party May 1958
"Alan Nathan Makes Bar Mitzvah" 1959
Alan Nathan Makes Bar Mitzvah 1959 (Rumford)
Alan Nathan Makes Bar Mitzvah 1959
Bas Mitzvah Exercises at Portland Hebrew Day School 6/7/1959 (Portland)
Kenneth Grossman - Bar Mitzvah Group photo 1960
Bar Mitzvah party invitation 10/14/1961 (Portland)
Bas Mitzvah class, Portland 1961
Steven Kornetsky Bar Mitzvah Invitation 9/15/1962
Beth Jacob Boys Wearing Their Tallitot April 10 1964
Mustard Doublebreasted : 10-minute documentary short about the 40th anniversary of Norman my brother's bar mitzvah as he and our parents recall the experience. 1970
Charlotte, NC at Berson Family Bar Mitzvah October, 1985
Henry Segal speech on the 65th Bar Mitzvah of Lonny Berson July 30, 1985

Confirmation

Confirmation ceremony, Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland, 1938 1938
Confirmation, Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland, 1938 1938
Beth Jacob Confirmation Class 1954
Beth Jacob Confirmation Class announcement 1954
1955 Temple Beth Jacob Confirmation Class 1955 (Lewiston)
1955 Temple Beth Jacob Confirmation Class 1955
1955 Temple Beth Jacob Confirmation Class 1955
Temple Beth El Confirmation May 1955
Temple Beth El Confirmation 1955
Confirmation Class on Bimah at Temple Beth El 1956
Temple Beth El Confirmation Class I circa 1956
Temple Beth El Confirmation Class II circa 1956
Temple Beth El Confirmation Class with Cantor Kurt Messerschmidt and Rabbi Lewis Grossman at the Bimah circa 1956
1958 Beth Jacob Confirmation Class - Newspaper 5/23/1958 (Lewiston)
1958 Beth Jacob Confirmation Class - Newspaper 5/23/1958
1958 Beth Jacob Confirmation Class - Newspaper 5/23/1958
1958 Beth Jacob Confirmation Class - Photo 5/23/1958 (Lewiston)
1958 Beth Jacob Confirmation Class - Photo 5/23/1958
1958 Beth Jacob Confirmation Class - Photo 5/23/1958
Confirmation Class photograph, Beth Abraham Synagogue 1959
First Class of Young Ladies to be Confirmed at Beth Abraham Synagogue 5/15/1959
Photograph from Confirmation at Beth Abraham Synagogue 1959
1964 Graduating Seniors, Beth Jacob 1964 (Lewiston)
1964 Graduating Seniors, Beth Jacob 1964
Temple Beth El Consecration Class with Rabbi Sky 1964
Confirmation at Temple Beth El June 1966

Not Yet Classified

A Collection of 203 articles from the Bath Independent date not known (Bath)
Bar Mitzvah Freilach - a Center Theater production date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center (Portland) Bulletins 1940 - 1990 (Portland)
Voice of the Hebrew School in Lewiston-Auburn, no 3, Adar 5716 1956 (Lewiston-Auburn)

On B'nai Mitzva

Bar mitzvah invitation, Portland 06/22/57 (Portland)
Letter from Rabbi Ephraim Bennett to Maurice Elowitch on the Bar Mitzvah of Temple Beth El (Portland) 1960 (Portland)
Letter form Henry Segal to Lonny Beson 7/30/1985 (Bangor)

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