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Douglas Avellino knew that his grandfather sometimes had trouble watching his baseball games, that he might walk away and sit in the car if the action became too unbearable.
UNC's beloved hoofed mascot, Ramses, became a man Saturday night when a bar mitzvah celebration was held in his honor. The school icon was a no show at the event, but the party went on with more than 75 guests filing through the N.C. Hillel doors for some dancing, food and fun.
Rabbi David Gruber of Frisco, Texas, gives Jews in the heartland an alternative option to the standard synagogue based bar/ bat mitzvah. The celebration, personalized to each family, is much more relaxed and is not performance oriented. [PR.com - February 26, 2009]
For her bat mitzvah project, 13-year-old Carlie Schlachter of Ocean Township donated $5,000 to the Monmouth Medical Center Foundation for the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center, where her grandmother Anita Schlachter has been receiving treatment for brain cancer.
You never know quite what to expect from a Broken Social Scene concert.
Chagall has some new competition when it comes to charming audiences at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. The showstoppers Thursday night weren't the artist's famous works, but Manischewitz gelatin shots that - for better or worse - had visitors buzzing about...
Fort Wayne resident Paul Schorey trained to be a teacher at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. But, he says, he got quite an education when he spent five weeks in New York in 1998 as a street missionary for Jews for Jesus.
Jewish boys have Bar Mitzvahs and girls have Bat Mitzvahs when they turn thirteen. The ritual signifies a youth's entry into adulthood and Jews usually begin studying for the ceremony a year or more in advance.
Amy Lord's The Boychick Affair – The Bar Mitzvah of Harry Boychick, the new interactive Off-Broadway comedy, begins performances at the Times Square Arts Center July 4.
Jewish Journal columnist David Suissa is in Israel for 10 days, studying at the esteemed Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. While there, he’s blogging about his trip and what he’s learning.
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