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Article: You've come a long way, baby; Mothers and daughters compare their bat mitzvah experiences.
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- Cleveland Jewish News
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- December 2, 2005
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Kahn, Susan H.
Cleveland Jewish News
12-02-2005
"The service proceeded as usual, through Shacharit (morning prayers) and
through the Torah reading ... I was signaled to step forward to a place
below the bima at a very respectable distance from the scroll of the Torah,
which had already been rolled up and garbed in its mantle. I pronounced the
first blessing, and from my own Chumash (Five Books of Moses), read the
selection which Father had chosen for me, continued with the reading of the
English translation, and concluded with the closing brachah (blessing).
That was it. The scroll was returned to the ark with song and procession,
and the service was resumed. No thunder sounded; no lightning ...