On Motzei Shabbat, December 16, Yavneh Academy seventh grade boys participated in a bar mitzvah themed celebration. The students and their fathers joined for a Dougies dinner with entertainment from the Shnitzel Guys, words of Torah from Rabbi Knapp and recitation of a perek of tehillim. The first portion of the program concluded with singing Hatikvah. After dinner, students learned new dance moves with the Shnitzel Guys and did some hands-on learning about the process of making tefillin. They ended the night with father-son learning about the source for there being 613 mitzvot. Students received a gift from YPAA, a Chumash, as well as bar mitzvah gifts from their classmates.