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bar mitzvah

[bahr mits-vuh, bahr, bahr meets-vah] / bɑr ˈmɪts və, bɑr, ˌbɑr mitsˈvɑ /
NOUN
jewish rite of passage
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As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.

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As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.

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As a child in New Orleans, Mr. Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or bris; he heard neither Yiddish nor Hebrew.

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“Yes, we do belong here,” says Jacob, who knows almost as much as Isaac, just having celebrated his bar mitzvah.

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Reiner’s parents got him an 8mm film camera for his bar mitzvah and from that moment on he was rarely without one.

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