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And Not a Moment Too Soon!
The ultimate bar mitzvah/bat mitzvah is not the most expensive
or glitzy. It's the one that best achieves a fusion of
heart, soul and style. It's...
An event where the family and guests have
a profoundly moving experience... and follow
it up with a warm, beautiful, fun mitzvah party.
Our Goofy History
Before now, there were basically two kinds of bar mitzvahs/bat mitzvahs:
- Parents don't connect deeply with the spiritual side, but lavish time and attention on mitzvah party themes that are either wacky and irrelevant, or that reduce their wonderfully complex child to one dull cliché: he loves basketball; she's into horses!
- Parents make the bar mitzvah/bat mitzvah meaningful... but not nearly glamorous and fun enough!
Since the 1950s-60s when today's bar mitzvah moms and
dads were kids, practically everything has changed. Except bar
mitzvahs/bat mitzvahs; there, we're still following the same old script.
Weddings have completely changed in the past 50 years – why haven't
bar mitzvahs/bat mitzvahs? Have we all just been waiting for a Jewish
Martha Stewart to come along and design a new kind of mitzvah party?
Why do we keep doing bar mitzvahs/bat mitzvahs the SAME way? ...read more
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