B’nai Mitzvah

Samuel Elijah Rivera

SAMUEL ELIJAH RIVERA, son of Rachel Rivera and Dennis Rivera, will celebrate becoming a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, March 24 with Congregation Or Chadash at the Tucson Jewish Community Center..
He is the grandson of Miriam Effron of Shorline, Wash., Stephen and Clydean Troner of Tucson, and the late Samuel and Theodora Rivera of Redwood City, Calif.
Samuel attends Paulo Freire Freedom School. He enjoys history and reading manga.
For his mitzvah project, he volunteers at TRAK, helping care for animals and performing general ranch labor.