First Event of the Year

How cool is this? My first event of the year was Matthew's Bar Mitzvah at Temple Emanu-El, Birmingham on Saturday morning.

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He knew his Parshat (Torah portion) and had most of his blessings down great. By the time Julie and Nathan (Mom & Dad) were done with their speeches there wasn't a dry eye in the place.

Saturday night, I photographed the Birmingham Jewish Federation's yearly campaign kick off. Basically, I spent all day and night in Temple.