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...Torah to chant from the sixth chapter of the Book of Numbers, her rite of passage into full Jewish adulthood. One is tempted to say, "Today Elaine Weiss is a woman," except that she has been one a while: she is 62. Nearby sit five other Temple Israel Bat Mitzvah girls (and a Bar Mitzvah boy), ranging from their 30s to their 70s. Today they are...happy...
...high summer of the adult Bat Mitzvah. The ritual retrofitting is becoming standard in Judaism's Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist branches. In the Reform movement alone, 600 of some 900 congregations offer the necessary 18-or 24-month adult preparatory courses in Hebrew, ritual and Scripture. Both Reform and Conservative movements offer guides to facilitate the adult rite. Such ceremonies, says Jack Wertheimer, provost at the Conservative arm's Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, have not only "generated the spark of transformation within individuals [but] transformed congregational life...
...told me to stay strong and don't give up. It's something that happens to people. It'll go away." SAMMY SOSA, Chicago Cubs slugger, on what Bill Clinton told him about how to weather the controversy surrounding his use of a corked bat during a game...
Chicago Cubs slugger SAMMY SOSA was caught using a corked bat in a game against Tampa Bay. Sosa, the only major leaguer ever to hit 60 home runs in three different seasons, and who shouldn't need a corked bat to thrash the hapless Devil Rays anyway, says the incident was an accident: he picked up the wrong bat. X rays of 76 (!) other bats from Sosa's locker all turned up negative (though the inquiry did determine the cause of global deforestation), but Major League Baseball handed him an eight-game suspension. Sosa is appealing the decision...
...Number of games from which Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was suspended, after umpires discovered that his bat was corked...