B’nai Mitzvah Planning Guide
Joan G Friedman
August 12, 2004
When the child is born, start saving! It\’s not a bad idea to start two savings accounts; one for college and one for the bar or bat mitzvah.
Category
planning
Wonderousness of the First Time
Joan G Friedman
August 12, 2004
When the date was set, everything came into focus. He really will become a bar mitzvah. How exciting the whole year became. Bobby knew his prayers and haftarah very well. No one was concerned about that. He began to work on his sermon and master that, too.
The Last-Minute Pajama Party
Lisa Frydman Barr
July 22, 2004
The Last-Minute Pajama Party, preparation process.
Wedding Woes and Chuppah Horrors
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
July 8, 2004
It was a hot and sunny June afternoon, just hours before Julie Davine\’s meticulously planned 1991 wedding at the Hotel Sofitel. The huppah stood festooned in tulle with pink and white roses for the evening ceremony. Upstairs, the tuxedoed and gowned wedding party posed for photographs on the balcony of the penthouse bridal suite. Suddenly, Julie said she saw a cloud of black smoke. \”I said, \’What\’s that smoke?\’ But everyone said I was being neurotic, so I dismissed it,\” she said.
Settlers Threaten to Resist Withdrawal
Leslie Susser
July 1, 2004
No evacuation is scheduled to take place until next year, but the mood on both sides already is tense.
Adding Mitzvah Multiplies Simcha
Donna Gordon Blankinship
May 13, 2004
Sometimes the smallest details are the ones that make the biggest impression.
Rites Launch Israel Tolerance Museum
Tom Tugend
May 6, 2004
Amid a gaggle of Israeli security guards, bustling volunteers and California Highway Patrol officers wired up to communicate with who knows whom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper runs around the first two of about 50 rows of plastic seats temporarily set up in Jerusalem\’s Cats Square.\n\n\”Bring me chairs over here,\” says Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as he tries to move some seats to make room for one more.\n\n\”[Israeli Defense Minister] Shaul Mofaz is not going to be a happy man,\” he says aloud to no one in particular. \”See this guy over here?\” he tells his helpers, pointing to a flimsy seat that doesn\’t look big enough to hold the name on the sign: \”Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,\” \”this guy doesn\’t move.\”
The Same Boat
Rob Eshman
April 29, 2004
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros once gave a speech about the tremendous growth of the Latino population in the United States.
Fine-Tuning
Rob Eshman
March 25, 2004
\”I don\’t get it,\” one of them told me. \”Here this popular governor is going to Israel at a time when Israel really needs all the friends it can get, and people are turning it into an issue. I\’ve had it with the Jews.\”
Functional Seating to Avoid Teen Chaos
Julia Kay
March 11, 2004
It had been perfectly planned. For my brother\’s bar mitzvah reception, each member of our family was responsible for sitting with and entertaining a particular constituency.
New Articles
“Screams Before Silence”
David Suissa
April 27, 2024
Remembering Ken Holtzman, Outstanding Jewish Pitcher for the Cubs and A’s.
Peter Dreier
April 27, 2024
Why Are Presidential Statements About Jews So Weak?
Rafael Medoff
April 26, 2024
UCLA Hillel on Pro-Palestinian Encampment: Jewish Students “Feeling the Intensity of the Situation”
Aaron Bandler
April 26, 2024
USC Cancels Main Commencement Ceremony
Aaron Bandler
April 26, 2024
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.