Jared will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on January 31, 2009 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
Jared is the son of Lynne and Brad Smith of Sammamish and the brother of Evan and Margot. His grandparents are Harriet and Carleton Herer of West End, N.J., Stan Smith of Pittsburgh, Pa. and the late Natalie Smith.
Jared is in the 7th grade at Inglewood Junior High. His hobbies include basketball, video games and camping. For his mitzvah project, Jared is selling water bottles to raise money for Nothing But Nets, an organization that helps to fight the malaria epidemic in Africa.