We’ve got a lot to celebrate this weekend, so much so that we’ll have to wish you an early Shabbat Shalom. We’re breaking away once again from our dark hollow to the holy desert of Scottsdale, AZ to honor and support Marcia Feinstein as she is called to the bima as a bat mitzvah. She’s studied hard all year and we’re so proud.
Of course, she’s already got the usual Judaica, and in lieu of gifts the bat mitzvah girl asks that loved ones give tzedakah instead of savings bonds, clock radios and charm bracelets. Such a mensch.
Way to go, Mom. (Plenty of adults are doing it now, ya know.)
Coming up Sunday night is the cheesiest of all Jewish holidays, Shavuot. For whatever reason, Jews commemorate the giving of the Torah at Sinai with staying up all night studying and eating dairy products. This can take its gaseous toll on the lactose-intolerant, so don’t forget the Bean-O. We’re bummed we wont be around for Dawn 2005, the Bay Area’s rock’nroll Shavuot celebration, but we’ll have to console ourselves with a cheesecake from Chompies’. Or maybe we’ll bake up our own. (Unlikely.)
Wishing you all a chag sameach!
(Bat Mitzvah Barbie photo c/o Bar Mitzvah Disco.)