bat mitzvah

Don’t get me wrong, she’s cool—I’m supposed to go to her bat mitzvah next year—but JP’s my best friend.

“As each bar or bat mitzvah reads from the actual Torah, they learn its history, which becomes part of their own story and connection of Jewish traditions and community,” the rabbi said.

Her character, Carla, is a retired music teacher who wants to get her bat mitzvah.

The movie doesn’t pass judgment, per se, on the state of today’s upscale bat mitzvahs.

A turning point came in 2002, after a Palestinian gunman killed six people at a bat mitzvah party, including a 32-year-old Hebrew Israelite singer who had been performing.