No bar mitzvah left behind

When Debbie Ellenbogen's son Binny was three days old, he was having trouble breathing. Reassured by the doctors that he would survive, Ellenbogen wondered about his spiritual life. Binny had Down syndrome; would he be able to participate in a bar mitzvah ceremony?

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