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Thirty years into her marriage, Ann DuBois converted to Judaism. A week after dunking in the mikvah, the architect and mother of two adults will read Torah as a bat mitzvah. Why? “I have lived a Jewish life with my husband and children for 30 years. In some ways it felt like
their religion. I want Judaism to be our religion. I want to have our Jewish life together.”
Ann and seven classmates will be called to the Torah as Adult B’nei Mitzvah on Erev Shavuot, at North Shore Congregation Israel. While Adult B’nei Mitzvah are always inspiring, this year’s class marks it in a different way. They began learning Hebrew and studying prayer, theology and other Jewish topics last January, meeting only for a few weeks in person. Since the pandemic began, the class, which ranges in age from 38 to 81, met weekly online.