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bat mitzvah

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bat mitzvah

In Judaism, the female equivalent to a boy's bar mitzvah (initiation into the adult Jewish community).



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In Latin American culture, a quinceanera is like a bat mitzvah and a sweet-16 party rolled into one.
Rabbi Kaplan helped create the modern bat mitzvah ceremony for 13-year-old girls in 1922, and the movement accepted women as rabbis from the opening of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1968.
She plans for success, friendships and romance, but when she struggles with her mother's idea of fashion, difficulty with the mitzvahs, and conflicts, her bat mitzvah begins to look like more of a disaster than a success.
 
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