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Bar & Bat Mitzvahs
Every Party Dilemma Has a Solution All Its Own
Once you receive your child’s bar or bat mitzvah date, it all begins.
Picking Right Tutor for Child Requires More Than Luck
Once you’ve been through a bar or bat mitzvah, you’re an old hand.
Centenarian celebrates fourth bar mitzvah
\”If my mother was here, she\’d probably be saying, \’Dayenu, enough already,\’\” said Dr. Eugene Gettelman, who turned 100 in June. \”She\’d think I was meshugge for having a fourth bar mitzvah.\”
So you want to be a DJ . . .
For those who have dreamed of going from an infinite iPod playlist to playing live on the ones and twos, the bar and bat mitzvah party scene is a great place to get your start. Setting up a DJ business takes practice, planning and professionalism, but it beats baby-sitting and burgers.
Pinched pocketbooks no bar to party planning
Have tough economic times forced you to scale back your child\’s bar or bat mitzvah party plans? With your 401(k) down, is the ice sculpture out? Is your resetting ARM making you reconsider that 18-piece orchestra?
A boy becomes a man in Beijing
\”Other tourists, especially Jews, were really blown away when we told them about the bar mitzvah. Lots of people said it was the best story they\’d heard yet in Beijing.\”
The dream of a beautiful bat mitzvah — but whose dream would it fulfill?
When I look at my daughters, I see their faces as both azoy shayne and uruwashii, \”so beautiful\” in Yiddish and in Japanese.
One more time with nachas — gift that keeps on giving
Our boys have surprised us by some of the choices they have made, and while we might not have made the same choices for them, we are proud of their growing commitment to living wholly, and holy, Jewish lives.
VIDEO: Bar Mitzvah the Tradition
This video, an open source release of Mercer County Community College in New Jersey, gives a good, factual overview of the meaning and tradition of the Jewish coming-of-age ritual, the Bar Mitzvah.
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