Clara Mamet Quotes

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

I wasn't bat mitzvahed.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.

Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

I study Torah all the time.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.

I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don't even know what you're saying.

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.