Today, my father is a man.

Today was my Dad's bar mitzvah. As many of you know, my Dad is a ger, and converted in 1998 or so. The trigger was that he realized that he wanted to have an aliyah at my aufruf before my wedding. So he converted, and he and Mom had a Jewish wedding.

But he never read from the Torah.

B'nai Or, the Jewish Renewal hippy Jewish community that my folks belong to, and my mother is a longtime lay leader for, did an adult b'nai mitzvah class this past year. And Dad, and five other people, signed up for it, and read from the Torah today.

It was wonderful.
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