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...first guitar for my bar mitzvah. My father smashed it when my grades began to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 3, 1998 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frequent Surprises | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: How Jewish Is `Too Jewish'? | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: A Teetotaler's Thoughts | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: The New York Club Scene | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

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