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Samuel Benjamin Holthaus, son of Vicki and Dan Holthaus, became a bar mitzvah on Saturday, Aug. 26 at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Grandparents are Judy and Dick Roth of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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