Bar and bat mitzvah (English Wikipedia)

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Eleff, Zev (2020). "Chapter 2: How Bat Mitzvah Became Orthodox". Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4482-8. ...the rabbinate in the United States had already decided on the halakhic impropriety of the Bat Mitzvah ritual...
Eleff, Zev; Schacter, Jacob J. (2016). "Chapter 9: The Orthodox Synagogue and Rabbinate. Section 1: Rites of Passage". Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8276-1289-1. ...Orthodox leaders resisted the "innovation" and impulse to be "with it." In fact, as late as the 1970s, only the most accommodating Orthodox rabbis permitted bat mitzvah ceremonies, and they allowed just the most modest sort of occasions...

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Machzor Vitri on Pirkei Avot, also found at Machzor Vitry מחזור ויטרי (in Hebrew). p. 549. Retrieved March 7, 2018.

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Al (January 18, 2011). "Saturday Night Live Mocks Over-The-Top Bar Mitzvah". Jewish Humor Central. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

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"Celebrating the Age of Mitzvah: A Guide for all Genders". Keshet. Retrieved May 5, 2023.

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"How the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Child Participates in the Service". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
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Cohen, Stefanie (April 18, 2010). "$1 Million Parties – Have NYC Bar Mitzvahs Gone Too Far?". New York Post. Archived from the original on April 20, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2010.

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Krueger, Alyson (March 27, 2019). "Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Hey, What About a Both Mitzvah?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
Peiser, Jaclyn; Lyons, Eve; Chafetz, Marisa (April 27, 2019). "Becoming a Woman Before Their Eyes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
Maag, Christopher (March 22, 2009). "Having a Bat Mitzvah in Their 90s Because It's a Hoot". The New York Times. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
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"Origins of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah". ReformJudaism.org. October 19, 2012. Today in almost all non-Orthodox congregations, all children mark symbolic entry into Jewish adulthood through b'nai mitzvah (bar or bat mitzvah) at age 13.

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Reform Judaism magazine, Winter 2012.

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Midrash Hashkem on Shemot; also Grünhut's "Sefer ha'Likkutim", i. 3a
Machzor Vitri on Pirkei Avot, also found at Machzor Vitry מחזור ויטרי (in Hebrew). p. 549. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
Pirkei Avot 5:21
Niddah 46a
Baba Metzia 96a

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Arking, Linda (June 1, 2000). "Molly's Unforgettable Bat Mitzvah". Sh'ma, A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Retrieved August 15, 2011.

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Bazelon, Emily (May 19, 2005). "Saving the Bar Mitzvah". Slate. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.

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Carolyn Slutsky (July 15, 2009). "At This Bar Mitzvah, Dylan's The Only Prophet". The Jewish Week. New York. Archived from the original on July 20, 2009.

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Doll, Jen (December 9, 2017). "The Bar Mitzvah Party Starters". Topic. Retrieved December 23, 2017.

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Cohen, Stefanie (April 18, 2010). "$1 Million Parties – Have NYC Bar Mitzvahs Gone Too Far?". New York Post. Archived from the original on April 20, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
Allison Hoffman (December 9, 2007). "Big bucks and pink thrones". The Chicago Jewish News. Archived from the original on November 20, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
Waskow, Arthur Ocean and Phyllis Ocean Berman. Excerpt from A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC at "History of Bat Mizvah". Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
"Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program". City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008.
Carolyn Slutsky (July 15, 2009). "At This Bar Mitzvah, Dylan's The Only Prophet". The Jewish Week. New York. Archived from the original on July 20, 2009.
Maryann Mott (October 6, 2006). "Pets Gaining Recognition in Places of Worship". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on October 18, 2006.

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Genesis Rabbah 63:10 (commenting upon Genesis 25:27) בראשית רבה סג י (in Hebrew)
Pirkei Avot, 5:21

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Krueger, Alyson (March 27, 2019). "Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Hey, What About a Both Mitzvah?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
Peiser, Jaclyn; Lyons, Eve; Chafetz, Marisa (April 27, 2019). "Becoming a Woman Before Their Eyes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2019.