My Monumental Bar Mitzvah Project
My bar mitzvah project was not as simple as I had envisioned it would be. I could never have guessed that I would be making a documentary that took so many hours of work.
B'nai Mitzvah
Origins of the B'nai Mitzvah (Bar/Bat Mitzvah)
The bar mitzvah ceremony was developed as a public recognition of a legal and religious status, attained with or without the ritual.
Reflecting on Simchat Torah
Thanks to social media and electronic devices you can check in on Foursquare and read the Mishkan T'filah prayer book on a handheld device at the same time. Yet for all the modern inventions, the Torah remains unaffected.
A Mother’s Love on Her Son’s Bar Mitzvah Day
"You stand now, poised on the edge of time, already gathering yourself, already testing those waters, feeling the sharp and chill exhilaration of the new and different and exciting, tasting the sweetness of the yet-to-be."
Nitzavim: A Memory
I wrote this drash in honor of (or is it in memory of) the fiftieth anniversary of my bar mitzvah on 21 September 1957 at Temple Beth Israel in Macon, Georgia.
