Word: mitzvah
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...sisters and I were young, my mother, who is of Russian Jewish decent, and my father, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist from Jamaica, made the mutual decision to raise the three of us in the Jewish faith. I attended Hebrew school for years, and became a bat mitzvah at age 13. I continue to observe the Jewish holidays and consider Judaism to be a central aspect of my personal identity...
...Kessler, a lawyer from Philadelphia who helped raise $5.5 million last year, is practically a pen pal. When Kessler's wife last gave birth, there was a congratulatory phone call from Gore. When his son was recovering from knee surgery, there was a note. Another note marked the Bas Mitzvah of Kessler's daughter. And when her ninth-grade class visited Washington, Gore arranged a tour of the White House and posed for a group photo...
...have performed as consistently as Steinhardt, a jeweler's son from Brooklyn whose first shares of stock were a bar mitzvah present from his father. He broke into Wall Street as a research analyst but, by the age of 26, had started his own firm and kicked off his winning streak. One dollar invested with Steinhardt in 1967, the year he founded his firm, would be worth $462 today. That compares with a $17 value today for a dollar invested the same year in the stocks listed in the Standard & Poor's 500. Richard Cooper, an investor who entrusted...
...wish every person at Harvard could have been here tonight. We would have 6,600 mitzvah projects," said Ariela M. Migdal '96. Mitzvah is the Hebrew word for good deed...
Living on the margins of life and sanity, they have time for family history and sentiment, for religious tradition and, yes, for lost little boys. They think a better name for Steven would be Franz Lidz, resonant as it is with romantic and artistic striving. They think a Bar Mitzvah is essential to his spiritual growth. And you never can tell when lessons in evading government functionaries (like a building inspector) will come in handy. Somehow they get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood...