Not-so-Petty cash to rock bat mitzvah ($10 million! for coming out party)

NY Daily News ^ | November 29, 2005

[Khurkris]

"Uhh...Don who?"

[EdJay]

I've always thought bar and bat mitzvah's were basically religious in intent. Or so my Jewish friends tell me. They are the Jewish boy or girl's first aliyah (reading of the Torah) .
The party afterwards was just a chance for the family & friends to congratulate the girl or boy and welcome his or her entrance into the Jewish community.
I've been to a fair number of bar and bat mitzvahs although I am not Jewish. Some of the parties were very nice, but, needless to say, none were quite so over the top.
The religious nature of the event appears to me to be lost when you indulge in this sort of excess.
But as several have said, it's their money and their private business what they do with it.
Her wedding is going to be pretty anti climactic!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I suppose so, can't take it with him to prison.

[tuff_schlitz]

I remember watching the Hollywood Squares or something like that, and a question was posed to one of the celebrities: "On a boy's Bar Mitzvah, what does he read from?" The response: "A cashier's check"

Just precious...

[tuff_schlitz]

Yeah...I'd rather hear Joe jam out to Funk49 or Rocky Mountain Way than any of Don Henley's whiney crap. Hell, I'd even rather hear Joe talk about ham radio (he's a big CQ man, in case you didn't know).

[coop71]

Geez. The girl is only 13. Lighten up on her.

[Clemenza]

Gee, all I got for my Confirmation was a slap in the face and a guilt conscience.

[Clemenza]

Gee, all I got for my Confirmation was a slap in the face and a guilty conscience.

[cyborg]

YES.

[Clemenza]

What I saw her doing, Jewish girls aren't really famous for.

Well there was this Jewish girl from Brazil who I met in Miami...

[Alouette]

This is disgusting.

Jews are homeless and destitute from Gush Katif disengagement and Hurricane Katrina and this creep pisses away $10 million on a freaking teenage party.

This is shameful.

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[Blood of Tyrants]

How was he hoping to honor with this excessive party for a 13 year old girl? It ceratinly wasn't the one we are supposed to honor.

[Pharmboy]

And yer prolly better off fer it!

[Alouette]

Why do some people get so warped out as to how someone spends their own money.

For one thing, we learn now that it was not his own money.

For another thing, this is supposed to be a religious ceremony celebrating a young person's obligation to fulfill G-D's commandments. That is not done with a vulgar and lavish display of excess.

I have heard about another very wealthy family that celebrated their son's bar mitzvah by giving him $1 million--all to be distributed to various worthy charities.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I notice everyone is saying the girl is thirteen, but girls reach bat mitzvah at age twelve.

Would a twelve year old even know who any of those old fogies are?

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[SJackson]

He earns it making body armour. I thinking he could have found somewhere to donate $9 million worth of vests, the world being what it is, and held the Bat Mitzvah to $1 million, like all the rest of us.

[dennisw]

hahahhah

[perfect stranger]

F# Maj has always been troublesome for me.

[Dave Burns]

David Brooks gave $25000 to the Republican party in June.
God bless his daughter on her Bat Mitzvah.