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Unbalanced on Bar Mitzvahs
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I don't understand why Style chooses to print articles such as "13 and Counting," which described events that are not typical of the norms of a minority community and which can't help but reflect badly on the group. Your readers might be interested to know what my 12-year-old granddaughter Elana did for her bat mitzvah in June:
She studied the Book of Psalms for a year with her mother and wrote a lovely explanation of what she had learned, which she delivered to 35 of her classmates at a party at her home.
She selected several themes from Psalms -- the unity of the Jewish people and their responsibility for each other -- and asked me to devise a one-hour paper-cutting class for her 35 friends.
She received some memorable gifts -- a pair of antique brass candlesticks that had been lit by the women in our family for more than 125 years, a pair of earrings made for her from cufflinks owned by her deceased great-grandfather, whom she had the privilege of knowing, and a locket given by that gentleman to his future wife, Elana's 96-year-old great-grandmother.
She donated 10 percent of all the monetary gifts she received to charities that she researched and chose herself.
Now there is a story worth telling.
-- Naomi Hordes
Silver Spring
