“hegemony of the modern synagogue. These are the events that surround birth, coming of age, marriage (including divorce), and death. Many synagogues… — Kerry M. Olitzky Copy Share Image
Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Admitting that we ourselves are bar mitzvah boys is our way of letting non-Jews as well as Jews in the audience know… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and… — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
I found a fruitful world, because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise I am planting for my children. -Talmud, Taanit 23a — Bible Copy Share Image
There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Daniel." He looked up. "El-la.I was wondering if you'd catch me." He offered me a cigarette. I gave him a shame-on-you look;he… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“practice, the synagogue generally limits its services only to members in the area of bat or bar mitzvah. Most life-cycle events (outside… — Kerry M. Olitzky Copy Share Image
I don't dance. I don't like to dance, I don't dance in clubs, bar mitzvahs, weddings, none of that. It's not me. — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry. (Psalms 88:2) — Bible Copy Share Image
Do I do bar mitzvahs? No. You know, you've gotta draw a line somewhere. — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
I danced for, like, 11 years at bar mitzvahs and executive parties. I'm a professional energy producer. I produce energy, baby. — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline. — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment. — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
