Word: mitzvahs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have trouble getting to sleep last night? Are you still shaking your head and smiling every time you think about it? Did you call up guys that you haven't talked to since those seventh grade Bar Mitzvah parties and gloat for 15 minutes about what you saw and what they missed...
...Second Jewish Catalog, with an appendix called The Jewish Yellow Pages, is crammed with practical advice on such matters as weaving Passover tablecloths, organizing a bar mitzvah (with hints for writing your own ceremony) and proper behavior in a synagogue (sit up front for serious prayer, toward the rear for socializing). There are chapters on Jewish folk dancing and starting a Judaica stamp collection and a brief course of instruction on liturgical chanting. The yellow-page directory lists kosher candy stores, Yiddish record shops and Jewish genealogical-research services. Do you want to crochet a woolen serving basket for matzo...
...take a study break tonight and sample the atmosphere at Watson Rink. If you miss this Harvard-St. Lawrence affair, you might not get a chance to see another one until your son's Bar Mitzvah...
...most hilarious of the four, is one of those flirtations with sin and the fear of its consequences which has given Simon a particular hold on the fantasies of his prevailingly middleclass, middle-aged audiences. Mar vin (Jack Weston) has come West to celebrate the bar mitzvah of his nephew and been given the surprise present of a blonde hooker (Leslie Easterbrook). After a night of amnesiac pleasure, Mar vin wakes to find this houri, a vodka overachiever, comatose...
...country in the world places a higher spiritual and patriotic value on immigration than Israel. In Jewish religious law there is no greater mitzvah (commandment) than to return to the land of Zion. Since the birth of the Jewish state in 1948, 1.6 million Jews have settled in the country, and Jerusalem encourages others to come by offering generous financial and moral support. Last week, speaking in New York to the annual convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, former Premier Golda Meir asked for the aliyah (immigration) of 2 million Jews to Israel in the next two years...