Word: mitzvah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the Boston Area Congress for Tenants' Rights (BACTR) had planned to enter Temple Emmanuel to interrupt the bar mitzvah ceremony of the grandson of Boston landlord Maurice Gordon. His son, Robert Gordon, is on the synagogue's hoard of directors...
...group left peacefully, however, when a temple administrator informed them that the Gordon bar mitzvah was scheduled for next Saturday. Representatives of the association are meeting with the Gordon family today, but have said they will interrupt the bar mitzvah next week unless their demands are met by then...
Forty members of the South End squatters' movement gathered their forces in the parking lot of a Newton temple early Saturday morning, only to discover that they had come to disrupt the wrong bar mitzvah...
...commentary. Rabbinical interpretations are frequent; renowned authorities like Rabbis Hillel, Gamaliel and Samson Raphael Hirsch are quoted. The Hebrews' escape from Egypt leads to a description of the Passover Seder, and the appearance of the young Jesus in the Temple is used to discuss the ceremony of Bar Mitzvah (a phrase, Christians will be interested to learn, which means "Son of the Commandment"). Some of the details even border on the esoteric: when the story of Joseph's temptation by Potiphar's wife is sung in synagogue, the book notes, the musical notation over the word "refused...
...film director, casting, arranging and often creating his own characters. The Dance, for example, was inspired by a Derain painting, which was itself inspired by a photograph of off-duty soldiers in a dance hall. Somehow, after the chicken liver and the matzoh-ball soup at a family bar mitzvah, the idea for the painting jelled in Kanovitz's mind. Any resemblance to Derain-or for that matter, that particular bar mitzvah-is almost coincidental. The head of one lady is mounted on the shoulders of another. Abe Fortas (left background) got in because "his head reminded...