90-plus Jewish Boys Become
Men on Their Bar Mitzvah Days
David Solis, center, with his family on his bar mitzvah day
Courtesy of Pam Goodman
Jerry Weiner and David Solis go through
the process a second time
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
H untington Valley resident Jerry Weiner and Jenkintown’s David Solis are 92 and 95,
respectively. Yet by the end of spring, both men will become bar mitzvahs for a second time.

Weiner will celebrate his second bar mitzvah on the 80th anniversary of his first: May
7 at Ohev Shalom of Bucks County in Richboro. Solis became a man again on March 12
at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park.

Weiner found religion again after his wife Evelyn and son Larry died within months
of each other during the first year of the pandemic. He began attending Zoom services
every night at Ohev Shalom, where his grandsons had gone through their own bar mitz-
vah processes. Around the same time, he found his original bar mitzvah certificate and
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