Word: mitzvahs
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...movie the officers are brought together for the first time on a mission to find and stop the homicidal drug baron Reese Feldman, the somewhat charismatic villain played by actor Vince Vaughn. Amidst killing his adversaries, juggling his lovers, and planning his daughter’s bat mitzvah, Feldman is about to bank out on his biggest deal yet with an undetectable strain of coke. With the help of Hutch’s street-smart, illicit informant Huggy Bear (aptly played by Hip-Hop and rap star Snoop Dogg), Starsky and Hutch go to all lengths—ludicrous disguises...
From Shabbat dinners to John Harvard’s bar mitzvah, Solomon-Schwartz says she helped organized a multitude of events to introduce Hillel to newly-arrived students...
...have a Jewish grandchild and a Muslim grandchild. The Muslim is only 4. She doesn't understand anything. I'm working on her not to have any religion. And the oldest one is an Orthodox Jew. I gave him the biggest bar mitzvah ever...
...Late Bat Mitzvahs were the remedy. At first they took place outside the normal congregational context. "It was, talk to a rabbi, rent a hall, have your own experience," says Grant. But gradually, congregational rabbis realized that adult Bat Mitzvah classes drew spiritually curious baby boomers and--as it turned out--were a kind of synagogue superglue. They increased morale, turned a cadre of highly motivated women into fully equipped leaders and eventually attracted men who had somehow forgone Bar Mitzvah in their youth...
...such spectacles should not obscure the singular journey implicit in every adult Bat Mitzvah, Elaine Weiss's included. Weiss grew up Orthodox. Her brothers were Bar Mitzvahed--she remembers flinging celebratory candy from the women's balcony--but she never even took Hebrew. Feeling "empty" at mostly Hebrew services, she gravitated to Reform Judaism, whose prayer book provides English translations. A son was Bar Mitzvahed at Temple Israel and two daughters Bat Mitzvahed. But something was still wrong. One day Weiss visited the grave of a grandfather who had been a rabbi. She could not read the Hebrew...