Patricia Gallagher Newberry of the Cincinnati Enquirer isn’t Jewish, but she’s calling for bar and bat mitzvahs for all teens. Certainly, plowing through the Hebrew alphabet and meditating on the Torah gives kids a discipline others waste on Playstation skills. But wouldn’t seventh grade turn into an even bigger zoo if Jewish kids didn’t have some ritual to call their own? Muffy Wasp and her Christian cohorts have enough over the Naomi Nettlebaums of the school without usurping what’s ours. Newberry’s heart is in the right place with her desire to connect to her children who are at an age when slamming the door is considered polite conversation, but let her find her own way to introduce them to adulthood. For the last time, it ain’t about the party!