How to Use bar mitzvah in a Sentence

bar mitzvah

noun

• My younger son is preparing for his bar mitzvah even now.
  — Seth Lavin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
• Will, who pursues track and cross country, will have his bar mitzvah at the end of May.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
• Cash is great at weddings, bar mitzvahs, big birthdays, but for the holidays, don't give cash.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired News, 4 Dec. 2025
• Our day school and our bar mitzvah prep and our basketball league and youth programs kept our younger families there.
  — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
• Itay, the middle son, was missing at his younger brother's bar mitzvah Saturday.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
• Rather than have a bar mitzvah photo taken of her son, Mary commissioned an artist to create a portrait.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Just the right shoe was just the right fit for a bar mitzvah service project chosen by Will Labowitz of Glencoe.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
• There was Jeffrey, a Jewish man who had yearned to be a bar mitzvah, affirming his heritage, and was able to do so.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• There are kids who will have their bar mitzvah this year who never have lived through an October without the Dodgers in the playoffs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Take That performing in 2006, the same year as Elliot’s bar mitzvah.
  — Town & Country, 9 May 2023
• This week, our son will be traveling to Israel for the first time as part of his school’s 8th-grade trip which also coincides with his bar mitzvah year.
  — Rabbi David Baum, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• In one memorable scene, Ben watches a video from his own bar mitzvah and hallucinates an interaction with his young self.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
• Eighty years ago, my uncle Irwin Gerson celebrated his bar mitzvah in the Bronx.
  — Gil Troy, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• The group performed at birthday parties, graduations, bar mitzvahs, and synagogues.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
• Saturday's service at Beth Shalom includes a bar mitzvah, a young man's coming-of-age initiation.
  — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2023
• During this visit, Hamra read from the same Torahs used at his son's bar mitzvah, an emotional moment for the delegation.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• There are exemptions to fasting that apply to children who have not completed their bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah and adults with medical conditions or those who are pregnant.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
• Upcoming bar mitzvah planners at the temple have requested use of the projection mapping, and the venue is currently in talks with a handful of corporate clients.
  — Douglas Markowitz, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2025
• However, many Jewish women now in their 80s and 90s grew up in a time where only bar mitzvahs were commonly offered.
  — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2025
• Five decades ago, the luncheon for Andrew Stewart’s bar mitzvah became the first event in the Tree of Life synagogue’s social hall.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Crystal, who has four grandkids, told Stephen Colbert that the event actually occurred on the 65th anniversary of his own bar mitzvah.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
• The evidence is its ongoing presence at sporting events, bar mitzvahs, wedding receptions, and even conservative rallies.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
• Lear, who was raised in a Jewish household and received a bar mitzvah, was deeply troubled by Coughlin’s racist propaganda and screeds against the Jewish people.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• Her older sons were some of the last members in the space after playing basketball there the Monday night before the fire, and her youngest son was supposed to have his bar mitzvah celebration there later this year.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• During Menzel’s early days playing weddings and bar mitzvahs on Long Island in the 1980s, her goal was to get a record deal, not land a Broadway role.
  — Ashley Spencer, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Over the years, the line dance song became an international sensation, becoming a staple at school dances, sports events, Quinceanera’s, bar mitzvahs, weddings, and other celebrations across the world.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2023
• Daughter-in-law Sloane Udell said the victim was a celebrator of every occasion, bestowing cards and gifts to family and friends on birthdays, holidays, Halloween, high holy days and bar mitzvahs.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
• Buchsbaum described a mid-20th-century American Jewish landscape in which nearly every community had kosher butchers and caterers because even many non-Orthodox families expected bar mitzvahs, weddings and other celebrations to be kosher.
  — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
• For instance, in between Avi’s 2004 plane ride that starts the episode’s main arc and its last-second flash-forward to 2022, the premiere revels in the rapid wordplay of a gentile girlfriend meeting a vibrant Jewish family and the general tomfoolery of a jubilant bar mitzvah.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
• In between that opening scene in 1996 and the closing episode set in 2022, the show moves back and forth along the timeline, tackling life events both big and small in this trio’s lives, from bar mitzvahs and failed interventions to child dance recitals and the COVID-19 pandemic.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025