An Israeli boy in Ghana was due to have the first Bar Mitzvah in the country. The ceremony was due to take place this week in the capital city of Accra after Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa in Kinshasa, the Congo, dispatched a pair of rabbinic students and a Torah to help a family working there for an Israeli firm.
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