A Philadelphia man became a bar mitzvah at the age of 93, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Harvey Penson was not religious until his wife of 63 years died recently, the newspaper quoted his daughter as saying. Penson, who turned to Jewish studies to cope with his loss, said he became a bar mitzvah “because I love all this Jewish stuff.”
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