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Porter Lyn Steere<br />
Porter is the youngest child of Debby Rosenberg and Ed<br />
Steere. Alexis and Evan became B’nai Mitzvah years ago.<br />
Porter is currently an 8 th grader at Harford Day School and enjoys being on the<br />
soccer team, the engineering club, chess club and the tech crew for all plays.<br />
Porter has almost completed building an RC – remote control- truck from scratch,<br />
which is similar to a real vehicle. This took many hours of work and studying how<br />
engines and drivetrains work. Porter enjoys camping, high adventure, biking and<br />
hiking. He loves his pets which include Toby, Tikvah, Sunshine, Sassy, Makeena,<br />
Smurf, George and Stitch. Porter is also working towards his Star Rank with Boy<br />
Scout Troop 965. He hopes to continue through to becoming an Eagle Scout.<br />
Porter started coming to TAS/HJC religious school as a youngster in early<br />
elementary school. He enjoys learning about Judaism, Hebrew and his heritage.<br />
He has a thirst for knowledge. Porter pays attention to it all and absorbs it like a<br />
sponge. This past summer he was fortunate to visit Israel with his family for 12<br />
days and experience his heritage first-hand.<br />
For Porter’s TriMitzvahlon, Porter chose to twin with a Holocaust victim. He<br />
visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem this summer, where the atrocities of the<br />
Holocaust and persecution of Jewish people and others became even more real to<br />
him. His service to the temple was to team with classmates Connor and Austin to<br />
help Roslyn Belkin in the Temple garden. The fruits of their labors continue on in<br />
many ways.<br />
Porter had a phenomenal Bar Mitzvah on Monday, August 7 at Hussein’s Overlook<br />
in the Golan Heights of Israel. It was a beautiful and pastoral setting, high above<br />
the Jordan River Valley, with eagles soaring and a beautiful breeze in the morning<br />
light. He read Eikev from the Torah, a remarkable and fitting portion, with his<br />
immediate family and Rabbi Judith Edelman-Green in attendance. Porter chanted<br />
his Torah portion and received his Tallit that was bought many years ago by his<br />
late grandparents, Harold & Muriel Rosenberg, in preparation for Porter’s Bar<br />
Mitzvah. Porter shared his insightful drash as well. It was an amazing day,<br />
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