Everyone comes home from summer camp with memorable anecdotes, but Raphael Alcabes brought back a special memory from Sephardic Adventure Camp this year — it was there he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on June 30.
Overlooking Lost Lake at Camp Bishop, near Shelton, and surrounded by trees, clothing hung out to dry, family, counselors, rabbis and a hundred of his closest friends dressed in their fanciest shorts and t-shirts, and despite suffering from camp-induced laryngitis (a common malady), Raphael read the parashah loudly and clearly.
From left to right: Hazzan Isaac Azose, Hayim Feuer, Raphael Alcabes, and Rabbi Simon Benzaquen. Photo by Meryl Alcabes.
Raphael Alcabes
