bar mitzvah
Example Sentences
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As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.
As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.
As a child in New Orleans, Mr. Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or bris; he heard neither Yiddish nor Hebrew.
“Yes, we do belong here,” says Jacob, who knows almost as much as Isaac, just having celebrated his bar mitzvah.
From Literature
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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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.