bar mitzvah
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Jacobs: I started my first business when I was 23 years old in 1979 with $5,000 left over from my bar mitzvah money, and that business grew to a billion dollars.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Bandel came with his entire family to celebrate his grandson's upcoming bar mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ritual.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
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 brother had his bar mitzvah at the mountaintop fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
As if to emphasize the tenuousness of Levi Saunders’ existence, he became violently ill the day following his bar mitzvah and was taken by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
