Article: DIY manhood induction

MARTHA MEISELS
Jerusalem Post
01-12-1995
WHAT do a rabbi and a videocassette have in common? Both can prepare a boy for his bar mitzva.

A new Tel Aviv production company has gone on the market with a do-it-yourself bar-mitzva preparation kit. It consists of two videocassettes, an audiocassette, a tallit and a kippa - all for NIS 250 at a special introductory price (regular price: NIS 280). Or, you can buy just the three cassettes for NIS 180.

The company, called The Wonderful World of Judaism, is headed by two newly Orthodox men, both of whom had worked in the world of secular film production. Rabbi Mordechai ("Moti") Gal has been Orthodox for the past 20 years; Shuki Ben-Porat for ...

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