Word: mitzvahs
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...extra 388 years only meant, however, that the party was that much more poppin’. If you were around Mt. Auburn St. on Saturday night, then you probably heard the music blasting from Hillel as dozens of students got together to celebrate Harvard’s bar mitzvah in style. On the dance floor, a disco ball colored the walls as a DJ blasted everything from Miley to T-Pain, transforming the worship room into a shrine to the party gods. Merav D. Silverman ’10, who planned the event, explains that the purpose of the party...
...were around Mt. Auburn St. on Saturday night, then you probably heard the music blasting from Hillel as dozens of students got together to celebrate Harvard’s bar mitzvah in style. On the dance floor, a disco ball colored the walls as a DJ blasted everything from Miley to T-Pain, transforming the worship room into a shrine to the party gods...
...party was to show that, “Jews can have a great time, too!” And they certainly can. The crowd danced for hours and enjoyed the myriad of food and drink available. “We have beer, wine, a John Harvard bar mitzvah mazel tov cake, and much more. And it’s all kosher, of course!” said Silverman...
...Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is in many ways Olmert's opposite. The Prime Minister is a jokey backslapper and charmer, a consummate pol with expensive tastes in cigars, flashy wristwatches and fountain pens; Livni, 49, is a no-nonsense former Mossad agent who eschews small talk, avoids the Bar Mitzvah circuit most Israeli politicians use to rack up favors and lives quietly in a modest Tel Aviv home with her husband and two sons. And she has strong views on probity in the public sphere. "I resent the idea that corruption comes with the political system," she tells Time...
...panorama of malefactors includes: a 13 year-old boy who is initiated into the mob by being shot point blank while wearing a bullet-proof vest, something like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste removal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry), dumping drums of toxic sludge; and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash ("Let's rack up corpses," one says, "no use feeling depressed"). Above these scarred...