bat mitzvah

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• The recipient must be an American boy or girl celebrating a religious rite: a first communion, confirmation, bar or bat mitzvah.
• They worked hard, but it was worth it: At age 14, Jenny led her own Bat Mitzvah service in English and Hebrew, accomplishing the same goal as the students who did not have a disability.
• Because even within Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative Judaism women have generally enjoyed ritual equality for less than a generation, some adult women in the past fifteen years have also turned to the bat mitzvah ceremony as a way to expand their Jewish knowledge and skills and to signify their assumption of the rights and responsibilities of Jewish adulthood. Bat Mitzvah: American Jewish Women.
• I wanted my parents to stand on the bema in front of everyone and give a speech about how proud of me they were for having accomplished all the work that went into a Bat Mitzvah. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School
• Along with their male counterparts, they are celebrating the bat mitzvah of a classmate in a cushy East Coast suburb.
• And mini-poles have even been spotted as dance props at extravagant bat mitzvah parties in suburban precincts.
• When the dress of silk faille and feathers still hadn't arrived just days before her daughter's bat mitzvah, Lesley Wolman called Savannah, the Santa Monica, Calif., boutique where she'd ordered the dress at a trunk show. How Boutiques Pamper Top Customers
• I'm just a normal Jewish girl, anywhere." 12-year old Sophie Rosen at her bat mitzvah.
• Jenny: It's my Bat Mitzvah party. I'm 13.
• Kirk can list WMD pretending to Lincoln's greatness and ending up only the coward's version; he can hide behind his suburban strategy of avoiding national issues to clock metra trains, and he can go around to synagogues and speak at kids' Bat Mitzvahs reving up the fear in the Jewish community all he wants, but it is really very simple. Archive 2006-03-01