The big question became whether nonprofit groups affiliated with religious institutions can bar ceremonies or wedding parties on their property because the couple are of the same gender.
Jacob studied with Rabbi Howard Sommer at Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison in preparation for his bar mitzvah ceremony.
Naftali Estulin had his bar mitzvah ceremony in the early 1960s behind shuttered windows in the family's one-room apartment.
The postponement of confirmation has led many Roman Catholic theologians to interpret it as a rite of passage from childhood, like the Jewish bar mitzvah ceremony.
When Pastors Brian and Tara Lewis started planning their son's "Christian bar mitzvah" ceremony on TLC's recent reality show "The Sisterhood," I investigated and quickly discovered that they hadn't invented the idea.
Miller grew up in a thoroughly Jewish milieu, recalling in his autobiography, "Timebends," how he sat on his great-grandfather's lap in synagogue and later had a bar mitzvah ceremony.
Moshe, who had a secret bar mitzvah ceremony in the Brzeziny Ghetto in Poland before the entire family was deported to Auschwitz, where he was separated from his mother and sister.
The filmmakers hold up for derision the rabbis on hand, their Hebrew school, the rote learning that goes into the Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and the sentimental but empty performance that it becomes — but at the same time, in a parallel plot line, they turn their adult protagonist, Larry Gopnik Michael Stuhlbargg), the boy's father, into a modern-day Job.
And Temple Beth El, in Pittsfield, Massachussetts, offers a one-minute bar mitzvah ceremony.
Or worse, the one he wore to his Bar Mitzvah ceremony 10 years ago.
