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Five Colorado Springs women celebrate Bat Mitzvah

age 76, I have my Bat Mitzvah degree. This is a big deal because I got married at a young age and didn’t go to college,” says Gloria Royne as she speaks on the bimah at Temple Shalom during a Shabbat morning service. “I have learned how to be a ‘card-carrying’ member of the Jewish community and now, I just might go to college!” Her granddaughter, Erica Rutherford, 25, of Denver, presented Royne with the tallit she wore at her Bat Mitzvah as her three grandchildren sat in the front row with other families. Royne’s Bat Mitzvah was celebrated at Colorado Springs’ Temple Shalom, June 6, along with four other adult students: Kat Brandenberger, Linda Knapp, Kate Raphael and Carrie Schillinger. Congregants sensed the camaraderie, […]
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