This is the Forward’s coverage of b’nai mitzvah (also called bat mitzvahs for girls and bar mitzvahs for boys), Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies typically done at age 13.
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Life A Public School Lesson in Bat Mitzvah Etiquette
The faculty at Scarsdale Middle School launched a $10,000 “empathy program,” to teach students how to be nicer to one another, after witnessing a rise in several alienating acts: name-calling, gossip, cafeteria cliques and the wearing of personalized bar-mitzvah gear, according to an article in Sunday’s New York Times. As part of the program, students…
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Life Celebrity-Studded ‘Bark Mitzvah’
Fox 5 reports on a new (canine) take on an age-old Jewish tradition.
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Life Bar Mitzvah Smackdown: Chabad vs. Reform
Are Chabad bar mitzvahs a joke? Are Reform bar mitzvahs “institutional extortion”? The JTA’s Ami Eden has the blow-by-blow on the debate over which movement does a better bar mitzvah.
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