Word: mitzvah
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...Kippur-sized crowd: the July day when he had to delay a wedding ceremony in order to satisfy the couple's wish that they be pronounced man and wife at the moment the astronauts landed on the moon: the mother who decided on a ruinous $15,000 bar mitzvah so that "we'll be able to face our neighbors." In perhaps the most appalling passage, Siegel records his question to a confirmation class: How many of them would give up their Judaism if it was necessary to get into a good college? Out of 14 students, 13 told...
...months before she let him take the course. And his black-belt instructor, Doctoral Candidate Harvey Sober, has arrived at a philosophically precise rationale for his unusual activity: "It's not murder when you kick someone assaulting you," he tells his class. "It's a mitzvah [good deed] that you know...
...hilarious.) All the big production scenes-notably "Cornet Man" -benefit from the same approach. But imagine these guys dancing away at Fanny's mother's saloon on Henry Street. Posture?! They all look like they're going to fall over backwards. Not one of them knows a Bar Mitzvah from a bagel...
...Elliott, there couldn't be. His father gave him a normal-enough bar mitzvah ("They're still talking about it. The Biltmore in Brooklyn! Forty-some dollars...
...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...