Double the Mitzvah, Double the Fun
Friends since the age of 2, Drew and Lucas celebrated with a brass band and Super Bowl frenzy after a meaningful service.
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Lucas Rosenbloom and Drew Cohen co-celebrated their B’nai Mitzvot at The Temple on Feb. 10 with a meaningful Sabbath Service and party right after – actually — a “darty” or “day party.”
The event was even more special because Lucas and Drew have been friends since they met in the two’s class at The Temple preschool.
During the service with Rabbi Peter Berg with Parsha Mishpatim, Lucas spoke about the importance of the stranger in Jewish tradition. He said, “Jewish tradition emphasizes the pain of one who is outside the community and not familiar with the customs. I think this commandment is very important. If we all just helped each other even though we are strangers, we could stop so many problems like war, homelessness.”
Drew’s interpretation included teaching mitzvot designed for guiding through a life of meaning. He shared, “Filling it with deeds of justice, kindness, and peace to people who aren’t aware of them, to accomplish the goal of living a mitzvah-filled life and carrying them with us as the central goal of Jewish tradition. Becoming a bar mitzvah means that I will take on this responsibility as I become a Jewish adult.”
Lucas wore his great grandfather’s tallis, Drew wore his late father’s tallis.
To demonstrate their concern for others in their mitzvah projects, Lucas raised money for Chanukah presents for Israeli children, partnering with a toy store in Israel that used the funds and bought presents for kids there. Also, he arranged for the purchase of Chanukah presents in Atlanta for kids from five families who came to Atlanta as refugees from Israel because of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Drew supported the Boca Hoops High Five Program, a non-profit that enables children and young adults with disabilities, either mental or physical, to participate in basketball.
With a peppy celebratory touch, a brass band entered The Temple at the end of the service, playing the “Monday Night Football” theme song, marching down the aisles to direct the guests to the party.
Since the Super Bowl was the very next day, the party theme was football. Pictures of the boys from when they were little were recreated with the photographer (similar outfits and poses). Decorations included Solo cup walls with the first letter of their names, lit up bleachers with lights and a scoreboard, foam fingers and goal posts. Colors were navy and lime green where Drew and Lucas wore custom jerseys with the party colors and their names on the back.
Food stations for 300 guests were themed for the two Super Bowl teams (San Francisco and Kansas City). SF had Asian foods (sesame salad, Korean noodle bowl), and KC had burgers, cheesesteaks, fried chicken sliders. Kids had pizza, fries, and sliders.
Born in New York, Lucas requested frozen hot chocolates that originated at the New Yok restaurant Serendipity. The servers came through with trays filled with ice cream treats and cotton candy on sticks stadium style.
Party favors were customized jibbitz (accessories that help decorate the kids Crocs shoes) with the event logo, and stadium cups with candy labeled, “We love to Darty.”
Lucas is a student at Sutton Middle School and participates in All Star baseball, basketball, ultimate frisbee, and soccer. At Davis Academy, Drew’s interests include basketball, music (bass and drums) and photography.
Lucas’ family: Marissa and Sam Rosenbloom (parents); Donna and Mark Fleishman (maternal grandparents, Atlanta); and Myrna Rosenbloom (paternal grandparent, Ottawa, Canada).
Drew’s family: Myrna Rosenbloom (parent); Ellen and Jerry Sokol (maternal grandparents, Birmingham); Joy and Roy Cohen (paternal grandparents, Boca Raton).
Tragically Drew lost his father, Brian, when he was four and honored his memory by wearing his tallis.
- Marcia Caller Jaffe
- Simchas
- Community
- Lucas Rosenbloom
- Drew Cohen
- The Temple
- Rabbi Peter Berg
- Boca Hoops High Five Program
- Monday Night Football
- Super Bowl
- San Francisco
- Kansas City
- New York
- Serendipity
- Sutton Middle School
- Davis Academy
- Marissa and Sam Rosenbloom
- Donna and Mark Fleishman
- Myrna Rosenbloom
- Brian Rosenbloom
- Ellen and Jerry Sokol
- Joy and Roy Cohen
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