Sunday, June 3, 2012
"מזל טוב" "Mazel tov" - Muhammad Ali's grandson celebrates his Bar Mitzvah.
"מזל טוב" "Mazel tov" - Muhammad Ali's grandson celebrates his Bar Mitzvah.(YJN).We have named former world boxing champion Muhammad Ali Heavyweight champion "The Greatest", "People's Champion" and "The Louisville Lip" Now I would like also call him "Zaidy" and he is very proud of that. The boxing news media reported that the grandson of Muhammad Ali recently became a bar mitzvah. The 13-year-old Jacob Wertheimer, the son of Ali's daughter Khaliah Ali Wertheimer and her husband Spencer Wertheimer. "I was born and raised as a Muslim," Ali Wertheimer said. "But I'm not into organized religion. I am more spiritual than religious. My husband is Jewish. Nobody put any pressure on Jacob to believe one way or another. He chose this on his own because he felt a kinship with Judaism and Jewish culture. "Accordingly, Jacob had his Bar Mitzvah ceremony in the congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia on April 28. Jacob's mother also shared that the theme of the bar mitzvah was a celebration of diversity and inclusion. "My father was supportive in every way. He followed all the Torah readings and looked closely. It meant a lot to Jacob that he was there," she said.Read the full story here.
Labels:
Bar Mitzvah,
Cassius Clay,
Israel,
Mohammed Ali
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