Teen Travels to Native Guatemala for Mitzvah Project

Seventh grader Seth Frey spent a week building a home for a poor family this summer.

When a Jewish boy turns 13, he becomes a bar mitzvah and is considered an adult. But before that could happen, he is obligated to give back to the world by doing mitzvahs, or good deeds. Seth Frey, a seventh grader at Grover Cleveland Middle School in Caldwell, chose to go to his native Guatemala to help build a home for a poor family. Seth, who recently turned 13, was adopted from Guatemala when he was six-months-old. He traveled to his birth country this August for the third time, but this visit was dedicated to his mitzvah project. He spent a week working alongside his parents, Ronni and Chris, and sister Molly, a sixth grader at Grover Cleveland, to build a 13-by-9 foot concrete home for a family in a small village. This is what Seth …

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