Every Party Dilemma Has a Solution All Its Own
Jewish Journal
January 14, 2009
Once you receive your child’s bar or bat mitzvah date, it all begins.
Category
Bar & Bat Mitzvahs
Centenarian celebrates fourth bar mitzvah
Ellie Kahn
November 14, 2008
\”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.\”
Pinched pocketbooks no bar to party planning
Jewish Journal
November 13, 2008
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?
So you want to be a DJ . . .
Jewish Journal
November 13, 2008
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.
A boy becomes a man in Beijing
Alison Klayman
September 11, 2008
\”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.\”
One more time with nachas — gift that keeps on giving
Jewish Journal
September 11, 2008
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.
The dream of a beautiful bat mitzvah — but whose dream would it fulfill?
Jewish Journal
September 11, 2008
When I look at my daughters, I see their faces as both azoy shayne and uruwashii, \”so beautiful\” in Yiddish and in Japanese.
VIDEO: Bar Mitzvah the Tradition
Jewish Journal
August 2, 2008
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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