mitzvah

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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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His best-known innovation—his introduction, in 1922, of the modern bat mitzvah, to mark the 12th birthdays of Jewish girls—is now standard practice in all but Orthodox synagogues.

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There are scenes of Jewish holidays, birthdays, a bat mitzvah, a student recital and a medical scare.

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