bar mitzvah


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(Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility

confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish faith

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"A resounding congrats and Mazel tov to Charlie who is about to celebrate his bar mitzvah," they posted on Facebook.
More critical acclaim followed in 1976 for Rosenthal's play Bar Mitzvah Boy, which portrayed the tensions in a North East London home as a working class family prepare for the Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
They make sure that the check or pen (a gold fountain pen, of course), intended for the Bar Mitzvah Boy, is safe in their purse or suit pocket.
"I had just celebrated my bar mitzvah in Norfolk, Virginia.
The approximately 500 guests at the bar mitzvah got to enjoy waking up the following morning at one of Amsterdam's most expensive hotels -- Sabah Nissan booked dozens of rooms for the attendees.
Born in Poland in 1903, Israel missed his bar mitzvah - the Jewish coming-ofage ceremony celebrated when a boy turns 13 - because of World War I.
Born in Poland in 1903, Kristal missed his bar mitzvah - the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony celebrated when a boy turns 13 - because of World War I.
Now officially recognised as the oldest man on the planet, he is at last preparing for his bar mitzvah in Haifa, Israel, where he lives.
But on July 3, the Renaissance building in this Polish city once again became a synagogue when 13-year-old Jacob Wisnik from Westchester County, N.Y., celebrated his bar mitzvah.
MOVIE star Michael Douglas has told how he got a groin strain during his son Dylan's Bar Mitzvah celebrations in Israel.
The bar mitzvah, the celebration that marks a boy's 13th birthday in the Jewish faith, considered the age of religious maturity.
He did five minutes dressed in a pulpit robe talking about how he started wearing a Cossack hat and Groucho Marx nose to the supermarket so people wouldn't stop him in frozen foods and ask him to change bar mitzvah dates.
Benny continued to learn more about doing mitzvos, and finally one day he received his last mitzvah note on the day of his Bar Mitzvah, also his 13th birthday and the day he becomes obligated to do mitzvos.
I was talking to a customer while I had some down time and I told him that even though I'm Jewish, I never had a Bar Mitzvah (coming of age ritual) because I never attended Hebrew school.
For Suzanne, who is Jewish, finding a way to help 12-year-old Matthew experience a bar mitzvah, the traditional Jewish coming of age ceremony, was particularly important.