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 Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:45 pm
tsvi_tyl for mine i read the torah part that week and gave a talk and had a party at the old city in jerusalem. i also went on a trip and gave a tour to my family in the old city. (i prepeard it...). smile Why are you speaking in past tense? sweatdrop You've still got 2-3 weeks to go sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:48 am
I never had a bat mitzvah. Right around when it was supposed to be I had just moved from Israel to the United States -- I didn't know anyone over here very well, didn't belong to a synagogue, and I'm not extremely religious anyways so I just told my mom I didn't want one. She's a kibbutznikit, so of course she didn't mind sweatdrop
Sometimes I kind of regret it, but what can I do? Choices are choices. I'll just do a sweet sixteen or something and make it extra Jewish. xd
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:09 am
I said a speech, and all my non-jewish friends had to sit with me through the entire service, of which we did nothing in.
The cakes we had were pretty though sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:03 am
moochix The cakes we had were pretty though sweatdrop At my brother's barmitzva there were WAYYYY too many cakes sweatdrop . Not that too much cake is bad... Cake is good 3nodding . You can never have too much cake blaugh !
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:01 am
nathan_ngl moochix The cakes we had were pretty though sweatdrop At my brother's barmitzva there were WAYYYY too many cakes sweatdrop . Not that too much cake is bad... Cake is good 3nodding . You can never have too much cake blaugh ! agreed biggrin
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:52 am
ZonkotheSane jewangel ZonkotheSane jewangel ZonkotheSane of course. poeple have the right to be wrong. it's called "free will". just because i believe that something is craven, stupid, obnoxious, and hypocritical doesn't mean that everyone else has to. thats so true thanks. biggrin i'm just curious, but which part did you mean? everything um, that last bit was a satire.... sweatdrop but i guess it's true ya ninja
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:34 am
I did my Torah and Haftorah, then we had a party at the social hall in my temple. I didn't really like it that much, to be honest. No one wanted to hang out inside because my mom had hired the Yiddish Cup, a klezmer band, and no one likes them, even though I told her to get a DJ. So everyone stayed for outside in the courtyard.
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:02 am
My bat mitzvah... Im leading a couple of prayers.... torah service... 4 aliahs... 3 lines each.... its this october!!!!! Im reconstructionist and the rabbi at our synagogue lets us do pretty much what we want. One girl just went on a trip to some country instead of a bat mitzvah...
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:03 pm
jlitwin476123 One girl just went on a trip to some country instead of a bat mitzvah... And that was what she did for her batmitzvah?! sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:36 pm
If you got to do anything for your bar or bat mitzvah, no matter how much or how little, be very thankful. I converted as an adult, so while I did get to stand up and let people sing "Siman Tov u'Mazal Tov" and throw candies at me during shul on Kabbalat Shabbat, I never did get to celebrate becoming an adult with adult responsibilities as a Jew. I never got to chant from the Torah or Haftarah. I never got an aliyah. I never got to lead a shiur to demonstrate knowledge and competency with the tradition. No party. (My mother came to my conversion ceremony and said she was proud, but later I heard her calling my father on the phone and crying. The family mourned my abandonment of their faith, as I'm sure I would mourn if a child of mine left Judaism.)
I'm not saying those things are the only important thing, but it would have been nice to have someone acknowledge publicly how hard I've worked just to attain Judaism, let alone to begin to understand how to live it.
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