Word: mitzvah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost of a liposuction procedure, says Sanders. One member used 187,899 points to pay for a memorial headstone for her husband, who passed away last year. A businesswoman in Dayton, Ohio, who requested anonymity, cashed in 1.5 million points to pay for her daughter's bat mitzvah in Israel and took 13 members of her immediate family on a week's tour of the country...
...counted how many pieces appeared on the editorial page that were written about Israel, Hillel or other Jewish issues. Only pieces in which a substantial part of the subject matter was on a Jewish topic were included, not those that made passing Jewish references such as "My Bar-Mitzvah best...
Turning 21 in this country seems to be the secular equivalent of being bar mitzvah-ed. (Not that I have too much experience with it; I refer you to my byline.) Isn't it odd that we earn the law's permission to libate ourselves silly after we earn the right to vote for President or the risk of being tried as an adult and sent to jail for embezzling from "An Evening With Champions"? At 18, we're entrusted with legal control over and responsibility for our actions. Three years later, we're granted the legal right...
Still, I'm working hard to keep an open mind, even after I get a call on Wednesday afternoon telling me about the clubs dress code. And, at 2:00 on Thursday (wearing my Bar Mitzvah best), I meet Jocelyn Simpson, the institution's surprisingly young and upbeat vice president, in the club's midtown lobby...
...reading from the Torah is supposed to make you a man, what does this do? The svelte-again, off-again ANNA NICOLE SMITH attended a bar mitzvah at a Beverly Hills hotel, where she walked up to the 13-year-old guest of honor, danced seductively in front of him and instructed, "Touch me. Touch me all over." Although it seemed like a new low in tacky reception entertainment, the former Playboy/Guess? model had in fact crashed the party. Either way, on Monday in homeroom, that boy had to be the man. As for Smith, 30, who battled drug, alcohol...