Word: mitzvahs
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...venue doesn’t even matter—its on the crowd. I go off the love that I get, you know. We could be at a Bar Mitzvah, we could be anywhere, as long as the crowd is into...
Einstein's exposure to science and math produced a sudden transformation at age 12, just as he would have been readying for a bar mitzvah. He suddenly gave up Judaism. That decision does not appear to have been drawn from Bernstein's books because the author made clear he saw no contradiction between science and religion. As he put it, "The religious inclination lies in the dim consciousness that dwells in humans that all nature, including the humans in it, is in no way an accidental game, but a work of lawfulness that there is a fundamental cause...
...your fashion review: “The first pink polo shirt I ever saw on a male…was six sizes too big on the back of a huge black dude with diamond earrings that were way bigger than the ones my grandparents gave me for my bat mitzvah.” Charitably, the author—Princeton’s Tessa Brown ’08—managed to identify one black man worthy of praise, seeing in “Kanye West and his ghetto fabulous take on the argyle sweater vest...
...classrooms Zanker first used borrowed offices or living rooms, then began renting public school rooms at $5 to $10 a night. To promote his curriculum, which he dubbed the Learning Annex, he took $5,000 that he had saved from his Bar Mitzvah, printed a course brochure, dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...
...story is about a boy at his bar mitzvah, and his whole family and everyone is there, and he drops the Torah. It begins there and takes place during the 24-hour period right after that. I wrote the screenplay during the night when I was fasting, so I was weak and kind of in a crazy mode, and I wrote the whole screenplay that night. The 85-year old grandmother who’s hypoglycemic has to fast, his whole family who has flown in for his bar mitzvah has to fast, it’s basically the worst...