“I respect it. It’s commitment. I think back to my bar mitzvah.

It was hard. It was a lot of work.”
ERIC KATZ
A Weiner family dinner 
Courtesy of Debbi Katz
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Ohev Shalom reopened in 2021, he started
going in person, too.

“It was a blessing,” Weiner said.

And it’s a nightly ritual that he keeps
to this day.

He likes the feeling of looking forward
to services each night. Weiner only missed
one in the past year-and-a-half: for his
grandson’s wedding in Washington, D.C.

“It gives me an inner peace, a close-
ness to my religion, a closeness to God,”
he said. “I look forward to talking to the
people there.”
When Weiner looks back on his first
bar mitzvah, he sees it as a stepping stone.

He became a man that day according to
Jewish law, and it pushed him to work
toward actually becoming one.

Now he sees his second bar mitzvah
similarly. “It’s a fundamental part of my Jewish
upbringing and learning, and that
compelled me to continue on,” Weiner
said. At 92, he wants to enjoy his remaining
years with his son, his daughter and their
spouses. He also wants to enjoy them with
his new synagogue family.

“The good Lord is giving me years and,
whatever years I have left, I want to make
the most of them,” he said.

Most of those people, as well as
Weiner’s grandsons from California and
D.C., respectively, will be in attendance at
the May 7 bar mitzvah. A luncheon will
follow at the synagogue, and there will
be an intimate dinner that evening with
the family.

But it’s not just going to be Weiner’s
day. It’s going to be his late wife and late
son’s day, too. For his bar mitzvah project,
Weiner raised almost $2 million to build
a sports complex and a playground in
Northampton Municipal Park.

The complex will be for special-needs
athletes, and the playground will be
wheelchair accessible. A bench in the
outfield will honor Evelyn Weiner and
Larry Weiner.

“My mom was my dad’s guiding light,”
said Debbi Katz, Weiner’s daughter.

Both Katz and her son, Eric, also said
it’s very much in character for Weiner to
go all out like this. He did it during his
career as a pharmacist, as a father and as
a husband, and now as a 92-year-old bar
mitzvah boy.

“I respect it. It’s commitment,” Eric
Katz said. “I think back to my bar mitz-
vah. It was hard. It was a lot of work.” JE
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