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bar mitzvah the religious initiation ceremony of a Jewish boy who has reached the age of 13 and is regarded as ready to observe religious precepts and eligible to take part in public worship. The term comes from Hebrew
bar miṣwāh, literally ‘son of the commandment’. (See also
bat of Chancery.)
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Mass bar mitzvah in Moscow; Thirteen is indeed a lucky number for 52 bar mitzvah boys in Moscow.
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 6/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...thinking about their own son's bar mitzvah when they first attended a bar...months before the recent Moscow bar mitzvah, the kids took a special course...lit 13 candles in honor of the bar mitzvah boys. The boys each received a...
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A look at the modern bar mitzvah from the outside
Magazine article from: Washington Jewish Week; 10/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...planning for my second son to become a bar mitzvah, these words ring all too true...during a cyberhunt for hopping bar mitzvah party themes. It was written by...Schwarzenegger impression: "Come to my bar mitzvah, or else!" When I dropped William...
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What bar mitzvah is about
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 2/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...County, NJ) 02-01-2004 What bar mitzvah is about Date: 02-01-2004...elaborate or costly, fails to become a bar mitzvah. And a child who concentrates...embarrassed to read "50 grand for a bar mitzvah, and the kid isn't even Jewish...
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A lighthearted bar mitzvah guide for the perplexed
Magazine article from: Washington Jewish Week; 8/25/2005; ; 700+ words
; Bar mitzvah boy, bar mitzvah boy, Put away your...timing is everything, and unfortunately, bar mitzvah time is adolescent time in the human life...I'll bet even Elijah never had a bar mitzvah like this." And he's right. There...
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Holy Travels; For a truly unique time, have the Bar Mitzvah in Israel.
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 8/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...want, expect and need out of a Bar Mitzvah trip to Israel. There are different...Educational Tourism in Israel. Bar Mitzvah trips organized by Keshet have...over the whole of Shabbat. The Bar Mitzvah boy or Bat Mitzvah girl would then...
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FAMOUS TALES OF THE Bar Mitzvah: How Chico Pawned Harpo's Watch...
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 8/15/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...15-1996 FAMOUS TALES OF THE Bar Mitzvah: How Chico Pawned Harpo's Watch...gave me a pair of gloves. In my Bar Mitzvah photograph I'm wearing two pairs...hock shop redeemed her son's Bar Mitzvah watch. Then Harpo had a brilliant...
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That '70s Bar Mitzvah; Gen-Xers in search of memorabilia to create portrait of fin-de-siecle American Jewry and to rescue the rite's bad rap.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 6/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...for a grassroots operation called Bar Mitzvah Disco. Since Passover, Shell...expand their search to include bar mitzvah booty from every decade available...comprehensive enough to detail the bar mitzvah experience, they plan to bring...
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A Rabbi Marks His Bar Mitzvah
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 5/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...2001 a RABBI marks his BAR MITZVAH By LESLIE ROYCE RESNIK...adults to become b'nai mitzvah," Rabbi Oppenheimer...put out a book on the bar mitzvah curriculum for...his father. Then the bar mitzvah reads the Torah portion...
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Analysis: Proper age for a bat or bar mitzvah
Transcript from: NPR Special; 5/17/2005; ; 688 words
; ...Analysis: Proper age for a bat or bar mitzvah Host: ALEX CHADWICK Time: 4...perhaps comes from the history of the bar mitzvah. It's actually a very recent...CHADWICK: And how would the bar mitzvah be different if the age requirement...
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When Men Become Faith's Sons; Belief, Friendship Grow for Adult Bar Mitzvah
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...adolescent rite of passage known as a bar mitzvah, were not closely observed...converts to Judaism, never had a bar mitzvah, which formally honors a 13...community. The three who did have a bar mitzvah said they had not been adequately...
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Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah The bar/bat mitzvah ceremony...the adult Jewish male. The ceremony of bar mitzvah that developed in the Middle Ages...following Monday or Thursday morning. If his bar mitzvah took place on the Sabbath, he would chant...
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Bar Mitzvah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bar Mitzvah [Aramaic,=son of the Commandment], Jewish...social celebration that is considered a Seudat Mitzvah, a feast in celebration of the fulfillment of...it is increasingly becoming identical with the Bar Mitzvah.
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Bar mitzvah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Bar mitzvah (Heb., ‘Son of the Commandment’). The ceremony and status of boys (aged 13...the age of 12, but except in Progressive Judaism , this tends to be a fairly muted occasion. See BAT MITZVAH .
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bar mitzvah
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
bar mitzvah Jewish ceremony in which a young male is initiated into the religious community. At the ceremony...followed by a social celebration. Some non-orthodox communities also celebrate a bas (or bat) mitzvah for girls.
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Bat mitzvah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Bat mitzvah (Heb., ‘daughter of the commandment’). The status for a girl of attaining religious adulthood (cf. BAR MITZVAH for a boy). No ceremonies are laid down in the law, but a liturgy is...
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