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John Harvard might take offense at the suggestion that he only became a man in February of 2003, when Hillel sponsored his first bar mitzvah. Although the ceremony traditionally marks a young man or woman’s entry into Jewish adulthood—the bar mitzvah is the service held for 13-year-old boys, the bat mitzvah the equivalent for girls—it may not have held much religious meaning for the then-396-year-old John Harvard. For Hillel celebrants, the highlight of John Harvard’s bar mitzvah—now an annual event?...
Consider, first, the title. The dancing is done by professional hoofers partnered with hastily prepped celebrities, some of whom would be just about qualified to do the Electric Slide at a Bar Mitzvah. The stars include a Rod Stewart ex (Rachel Hunter), a soap actress (Kelly Monaco) and that J. Peterman guy from Seinfeld (John O'Hurley). The only part of Dancing with the Stars that should not be set in air quotes is "with...
...didn’t hate going to temple: I enjoyed sermons about how to live a better life, I felt uplifted by the stories, the songs, the togetherness. Along with my twin brother, I became a bat mitzvah. During my speech, I spoke proudly about my religion, while making a dig at Orthodox synagogues that didn’t allow women to read the Torah. That contrast summed...
...politics’ best-known urban myths is almost ready for its Bar Mitzvah...
...Girl Culture,” Greenfield intends to be exhaustive—not simply extremist and sensationalist—and, as a result, she also captures the mundane. “Monica, 13, dances with her boyfriend Adam, 13, at a Bat Mitzvah party” recalls the tense atmosphere of a middle school dance. Monica, her face lit by multicolor stage lights, looks up and away, bored, while Adam, his hands around her waist, turns his face away from the camera...