faux mitzvah

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:59 AM -0400 9/7/04, David Bergdahl wrote:
>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.
>
Not to be confused with the traditional and solemn ceremony of the
bark mitzvah, for that special day on which a puppy becomes a dog.
2,490 google hits.  (I suppose it makes more sense to calculate it by
the equivalent of 13 in dog years.)

Larry