You Get An ‘A’ For Effort, Kid

This is one heck of a Bar Mitzvah invitation

13 thoughts on “You Get An ‘A’ For Effort, Kid”

  1. Funny, he doesn’t look Jewish, or much like Freddie Mercury, either. But seriously, how much do you think his parents are putting out for his Bar Mitzvah party? They seem to be way into this thing.

  2. well, here we go again.
    He can’t even be bar-mitzvah.
    How can he be obligated in mitzvot, if he’s not even jewish?
    For them bar-mitzvah = party. Why not just call it like this? 13-year-birthday-part? Nothing to do with mitzvot.

    Nice idea for your spare time, well invested in doing something fun…just not the right reason. A goy reading from the Torah…oh well. G-d bless America, right?

    I can only think of “bark-mitzvah” to see were this nation’s going…

  3. Please stop with the “he ain’t Jewish” crap. He obviously is Jewish if he is having a bar-mitvah in a synagogue. He may have converted at an early age, and I’m assuming that he has had a mohel do a snip. Either way, he states he is ‘half jewish’ at the start of the clip.

    I find it disappointing to see this ‘more Jewish than thou’ on this board.

    1. Well, what can I do, he isn’t Jewish. If his mother is not Jewish (born to a Jewish mother and so on) then he isn’t either, unless of course, she went through a conversion and agreed to keep the laws and practice judaism – especially keep shabbat.
      Muslim also snip something down there, still, they’re not jewish, so the snipping is not enough.
      Half Jewish doesn’t exist.

      I really don’t care if you like this, but this the truth and Jew intermarrying are only destroying the Jewish nation…

      As long as Aussie Dave doesn’t tell me clearly to stop, I can’t post whatever I like in the comments section, as long as I keep ‘the board rules’, which I clearly do.

      1. Yeah, I am not going to censor anyone unless they post antisemitic or anti-Israel propaganda, or otherwise post things that could open us up to a lawsuit.

        I personally do not think we need to be focusing on the kid’s Jewishness and should focus on the excellent video!

        1. Thanks Dave.
          I agree the video is from a performance/editing/acting etc. point of view very very nice.
          I just think that the whole “bar-mitzva”-joke is not the main thing. (like I tried to express in the first comment)

    2. Agreed. Acc to Progressive/ Reform etc, if one parent is Jewish and they agree to raise child as Jewish, the child can consider themselves jewish, with the rabbi’s blessings. Now, I’m not reform, but consider this: just over 70 years ago, Jews were united by a horrible fate and no-one was asked which specific denomination they were or if their mother was Jewish, or if they could or would keep their commandments. Also, this boy has exactly the same right of return to Israel as any fully fledged Jew, and if he decides to make Aliyah, when he grows up, his Teudat Zeut will say Yehudi.

      1. You see, the Nazis were more strict than the Jews, as far as I know, they considered someone Jewish even if he/her father’s father was Jewish.

        What you are expressing Inessa is quite complicated: Which Rabbi? What Rabbi? What does this Rabbi keep? A title? I’m not so sure if this boy has the right to do Aliyah and just by his passport/id-card saying he’s “jewish” doesn’t make him jewish. The state is not going to tell me who’s jewish and who’s not.

        1. A reform or progressive rabbi. I realise orthodox Judaism doesn’t recognize their authority (nor do I personally) but thousands, maybe millions of followers do, many of them halachadly Jewish. The right of return to Israel is based on the same principle as that of nazis – so that all who perished would have survived had there been Israel. Israel does not discriminate as far as full rights of citizenship, nor army service. So when the statistics tell you the proportion of Israel’s population being Jewish, Arab, Christian, Bahai, at least 10% (conservatively) of Jewish population is not chaladly jewish. I may not like it, but I don’t make up the rules.

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