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Progressive Judaism scheps nachas from first Yiddish Bas Mitsve

Tamara Micner celebrated at Kehillah North London

July 22, 2024 14:01
Tamara Felisa Micner Guincher (Photo: Lexi Clare Photography)
Tamara Felisa Micner Guincher, who recently celebrated the first Yiddish Bas Mitsve in the UK Progressive Jewish community (Photo: Lexi Clare Photography)
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Progressive Judaism has celebrated its first Yiddish Bas Mitsve service with a member of Kehilla North London leyning her portion and giving a Dvar Toyre in the language once deeply embedded in Ashkenazi Jewish culture.

Tamara Micner, 39, who teaches Yiddish, told the JC: “I loved it. I really appreciate the community were up for it. My students were there; my father was there; ten of us who speak Yiddish attended.”

As part of the Stoke Newington community, she sometimes reads the Haftorah in Yiddish while congregants follow the English translation. 

Kehilla North London celebrates Tamara's Yiddish Bas Mitsve (Photo: Lexi Clare Photography)[Missing Credit]

Canadian-born Tamara said that her interest in learning Yiddish was sparked by her friends and family. “I had friends on the Jewish left who spoke Yiddish, and I naturally became part of that environment.