Article: A Bat Mitzvah Becomes A Funeral: The celebration Susan Ballenzweig

Martha Mendelsohn
The Jewish Week
11-29-1996
A Bat Mitzvah Becomes A Funeral: The celebration Susan Ballenzweig never. had as a child turns tragic as car wreck kills husband, daughter. One family copes with a nightmare.

It was to have been one of the happiest days of her life.

Susan Ballenzweig planned to mark her 50th birthday by having the bat mitzvah she'd never had as a girl. Her younger daughter, Ruth, celebrated her bat mitzvah in June; her older daughter, Rachel, four years ago.

"Are you sure you don't want to go to Paris [for your birthday?]" asked her husband, Howard, a real estate investor with his own management company. "Or have a glamorous party?"

Susan stood firm: She wanted to ...

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