mitzvah

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

My kid has her bat mitzvah in February.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

My brother had his bar mitzvah at the mountaintop fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

If it’s your niece’s bat mitzvah, it’s suddenly like: Are you supposed to give $18,000 instead of $360?

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

She was starting seventh grade tomorrow in a new school, in a new town, and, to make matters worse, a week later than everyone else because of the bat mitzvah.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin