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Modest Bat Mitzvah Creates Feminist Consciousness

Differences between a traditional bar and bat mitzvah are all too visible when the honorees are brother and sister.

His Bar Mitzvah; My Religious Crisis

How do you send your child to Hebrew school when you hated it?

Frasier’s Bar Mitzvah in Klingon

Frasier's Bar Mitzvah in Klingon

SNL’s Bar Mitzvah Sketch

Are you still watching Saturday Night Live? A lot of people tell me that they no longer watch the show ...

Deconstructing Black Bar Mitzvahs

Apparently Paul Marx decided to answer my burning question from yesterday, “What is a black bar mitzvah?” With an op-ed ...

Lost and Found: An Airplane and a Bar Mitzvah

My husband and I are binge-watching  Lost , a 2004-2010 TV series. An airplane crashes, leaving survivors stranded without rescue ...

You Should Have Seen His Bat Mitzvah

Here’s the wonder that is Athens Boys Choir. The name is deceiving — ABC is actually a hip-hop group of ...

The Ke$ha Bat Mitzvah Party

Have you ever watched one of those “Remembering the 80s” shows on VH1 where they look back at some of ...

Ahavah, Acharei Mot, and a Bar Mitzvah

This month Jed Schwartz had his Bar Mitzvah. And, like many B’nai Mitzvah students, Jed gave a D’var Torah– speaking ...

Celebrating Our Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah

“Some people will do anything to get out of synagogue on Simchat Torah” said my husband as we headed off ...

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