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May 11, 2006
Bar/Bat Mitzvah – B’nai Mitzvah Menu Dishes Up Bonuses
With the flurry that surrounds a b\’nai mitzvah celebration, we often lose sight that this day — this passage from childhood to adulthood — will be one of the most meaningful memories of his or her life.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah – From Saccharine to Satire.
Here, then, are 10 memorable TV b\’nai mitzvah, moving over the years from well-meaning, almost saccharine reverence for ritual to critical, even scathing send-ups.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah – A Postmodern Coming-of-Age Guide
When a book on bar mitzvah opens with a poem by Rudyard Kipling and a quote from French ethical philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, it\’s clearly not your usual bar mitzvah book, of which there are many.
Satmar Fight Underlines Its Assimilation
The death of Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, spiritual leader of the Satmar Chasidic sect, marks more than the passing of a revered Torah sage. It also signals the conclusive passage of his community from Europe to America, a process that first began nearly 60 years ago.
Make Days Count
When I was in my early 30s I joined a havurah, a group of professionals seeking a deeper Jewish involvement. And during this time of year, just after Passover, we didn\’t know what to do with the counting of the Omer. How could we make it relevant and purposeful?
This Week – Two Sundays
I left The Jewish Journal\’s booth at last Sunday\’s Israel Festival just before a loyal reader came up and asked whether I was around because he wanted, \”to clean an editor\’s clock.
Wandering Jew – Blue ‘Oranges’
Last year at the Israel Independence Day Festival in Woodley Park, anti-disengagement activist Shifra Hastings of Los Angeles was clad all over in orange, the color of protest, right down to her painted fingernails.
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