faux mitzvah

[David Bergdahl]

Dennis Baron writes:

> Wordwatch:
>
> I guess I'm behind the times, as usual, living out here in soybean
> country, but I just learned on a trip to Highland Park this weekend of
> the new phenom, the faux mitzvah, a coming of age party modeled on the
> traditional Jewish bar/bat mitzvot, only for non-Jewish 13-year-olds
> that is starting to become popular. I got three hits on Lexis/Nexis for
> the phrase -- 2 from s. california and one from Atlanta, but nothing in
> the midwest, which is apparently coming to this, as it comes to
> everything, about a season late. Anyone tracking this?
>
> Dennis

The Wall St Journal had a column on it a month or so ago.

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