mitzvah

• His grandparents—my parents—bought him a set of The History of Civilization for his bar mitzvah, and I'm building this to hold them. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
• And as the youngest in his class, Dovid's bar mitzvah was the last one in the merry-go-round that was simcha season. —  EQMM,May2007
• (Hint: An acronym for the mitzvah is beis, tav, sin.) —  Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
• Now the jailhouse bar mitzvah is at the center of criminal probes into allegations of special treatment of a handful of Jewish inmates and blatant departures from jail rules. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
• The city's Department of Investigation - a watchdog agency that investigates government misconduct - and the Manhattan district attorney's office are looking into the circumstances behind the bar mitzvah, their spokeswomen said. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here

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