By Judy Berger | December 24, 2020 Elissa Tobin, a sixth grader at Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy, celebrated her bat mitzvah the weekend of December 19. Like many bar and bat mitzvah youth, Elissa had to deviate from her original celebration plan of a big women’s tefillah at Agudath Sholom, where she would give a dvar Torah from the bimah at the conclusion of services, followed by a lunch at the synagogue for family and friends. This plan was whittled down, to a women’s tefillah of 25 participants, a Zoom Havdalah which included both a dvar Torah from Elissa and a photo montage. Elissa’s weekend concluded with a Sunday drive-by of local friends and family to wish Elissa mazal tov.