Ron Ben-Israel Quotes

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

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.

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

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

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

Birthdays are just weird! I like to have something simple like a dinner with friends and family if possible.

Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn't a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you're reading your Torah portion, you're not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.

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

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Who Needs Christ During Christmas? Nobody.

I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.

The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!

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

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.

I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.

Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.