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Yael Ines Cooper
Will become a Bat Mitzvah
Saturday, December 2
9:45 AM
Yaël Ines Cooper is the daughter of proud parents Joshua Cooper and Chayah Stoneberg. She is an eighth grader at Chapin Middle School, having attended Harmony School, Cutler Jewish Day School, and Chapin Intermediate School in previous years. She is an enthusiastic participant in MathCounts and Chess Club. Yaël loves to read, especially fantasy/sci-fi series and Young Adult fiction. She has been playing guitar for nearly a decade and transitioned this past summer to electric guitar; she enjoys playing rock, recently including the Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Her taste in music is eclectic and ranges from modern emo/indie rock to classic rock, 80s pop, folk, and punk rock. She runs, bikes, hikes, weight-lifts, and swims recreationally, and enjoys all manner of (wasp-free!) outdoor activities with family and friends. Yaël is an avid language learner, having studied Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Russian to varying degrees, and she has a real knack for math, reading ahead in her schoolbooks and dabbling with advanced topics at home. She also is a talented sketch artist and has accrued impressive skills in several modalities of drawing, focused primarily on figurative representations: detailed realistic faces, anime-style characters, animals and fantastic beasts, and digital illustration.
For her Bat Mitzvah project, Yaël is preparing a lesson book of art projects centered around major Jewish Holidays. This book will be circulated to BSS classes and self-published for others to benefit from her guidance in development of art skills with Jewish themes. She is also, as an aspect of her project, helping a local congregant who is experiencing major life transitions to organize her belongings - especially her extensive library -- in anticipation of a move out of state.
Yaël's family is looking forward to celebrating this day and have been studying with her to prepare. We invite the congregation to join on the morning of December 2 for services and the Kiddush Luncheon in her honor to follow. Thank you to her teachers and the rest of the community at Beth Shalom for all the support they have offered and continue to provide Yaël as she progresses through this momentous moral, social, and educational moment in her development as a compassionate and learned Jew.
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