Lyle Jay Kellman was bar mitzvahed at the Military Academy here Friday night at the age of 21, the first to ever have a bar mitzvah at the school. Kellman did not have a bar mitzvah at the age of 13 because his parents were in the process of being divorced. At the academy, he was tutored by Rabbi Avraham Soltes, the academy’s Jewish chaplain.
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