Tell me about your bat/barmitzvah

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What was the food like?

What music do you remember?

What was the venue?

Post pics if you can!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My parents hired a "comedy" waiter who served "pork chops" to the rabbi and pretended to be drunk.

I hated them for it.

My babysitter kept dancing with me and spinning me around until I felt sick.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my OLD babysitter

*ahem*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My rabbi spent his entire sermon speaking not about the joyousness of the occasion, or of my becoming a "man" in Judiasm, but the plight of the Vietnamese boat people. It could only have been more depressing if he'd mentioned the Holocaust or something.

― mike a, Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Banana Split: C/D?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget I used to work for those fuckers.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Bar Mitzvah Disco

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine was at Fredericks in Angel, home o' barmitzvah's o'plenty. They made us all stand up for the Israeli national anthem, which even at 13 I thought was dumb. My sister and her friends were 19-ish at the time, and hit the booze big, getting stoned outside. I can't remember much else, except I made a speech and no girls danced with me. I did get enough money to buy lots of comics and travel America, though, so classic. ;-)

I will never make any son/daughter of mine do it, though. Just give 'em the cash.

By the way, are there any Jews here who can actually understand Hebrew, as opposed to just read the letters?

I remember "dag" is the word for fish, but that's it.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, are there any Jews here who can actually understand Hebrew, as opposed to just read the letters?

s1ocki can translate any religious text you throw at him!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My haftorah was Leviticus 24:17. Take that, s1ocki!

*chucks*

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Who in this bitch can still recite the shema? ;-)

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My parents hired a "comedy" waiter who served "pork chops" to the rabbi and pretended to be drunk.

You've got to admit, that's pretty funny.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Some 12-13 years later, my mouth creases perceptibly with faint amusement at the thought of it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It would have been more funny if that dude wasn't at four of five of my friends' barmitzvahs too. And we weren't the first, so I was like "Oh, it's THIS guy again..."

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm slowly relearning the Hebrew I haven't used in 25 years. I do know my Shema. If you're Jewish, it's supposed to be the last thing before you die. Can't be too careful. :)

― mike a, Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Envisioning the drunk waiter is now making me audibly chuckle. I suspect I will laugh out loud on my drive home.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother was bar-mitzvahed by a female rabbi who a) was a big pro-choice activist and b) was the granddaughter of Isaac Stern (composer or writer, I cannot recall). Much, much cooler than mine. I think we all went out to dinner afterward; it wasn't a big to-do.

― mike a, Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I once gatecrashed a new year's eve party that turned out be held by Rabbi Julia Neuberger's daughter. We were cold, it looked warm inside.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I did the whole sedra and it was, by all accounts, a barnstorming performance. My abiding memory was that we had smoked salmon at the party and I hated smoked salmon. I remember nothing at all about the sermon - how do you lot remember? My knowledge of Hebrew used to be very good, but I'm twenty-odd years out of practice.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I've blocked mine out on account of the whole self-hating jew thing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rabbi at Kenton did what he always did with us occasional-to-frequent non-attenders and spent most of his sermon haranguing those who only come on the high holy days, move on to other things etc. I promptly spent all following Saturdays watching Swap Shop and eventually married a Japanese girl.

The party was cool though and I did a superb version of Bir'chat Ha'mazon in a Paul Haig voice.

― darren (darren), Saturday, 28 February 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister actually heard our rabbi give her batmitzvah service to a different girl, a year later.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 28 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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