After three years, at the age of 12, he lost all interest in religion, and at the crucial moment, he refused to go ahead with his bar mitzvah and make a formal commitment to Judaism.

Source: https://time.com/6549001/einstein-judaism-zionism-essay/

Both are Jewish and Ms. Hirsh said seventh grade was bat and bar mitzvah season.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/style/kim-hirsh-jonathan-fingerhut-wedding.html

His daughter Sunny appears as Stacy Friedman, a young girl preparing for her bat mitzvah.

Source: https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/adam-sandler-netflix-movies-47864903

In traditional Jewish thought, the mitzvah of sending away a mother bird from her nest before removing an egg or a chick that she was guarding—seemingly a minor matter—is considered particularly significant.

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One coming-of-age party in particular fueled the crew’s imagination: star Sunny Sandler’s real-life bat mitzvah, which took place in Los Angeles just a few months before the film started shooting.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2023/08/24/culture/how-adam-sandlers-you-are-so-not-invited-to-my-bat-mitzvah-drew-on-real-life-jewish-celebrations

Rashi comments that it is a mitzvah to bring about the Divine Presence, and the way to do so is with simchagladness of heart.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/parsha/the-joy-of-living/2023/08/31/

The boy was musical in general; he wrote a 10-part symphony for the school orchestra at the age of 10, and performed on the piano at his bar mitzvah – but noises would also tumble out, a cascade of unfiltered mimicry.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/04/05/performer-enraptured-by-the-magic-of-music-and-making-noises/

The film sees Sunny Sandler as Stacy, the youngest of the Friedman family (Idina Menzel, Adam Sandler, and real-life older sister Sadie Sandler) who is just weeks away from her bat mitzvah.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1468208/12-best-netflix-original-movies-2023-ranked/

The greatest mitzvah one can do is the one which is done for purely altruistic reasons (“Shelo al menas lekabel peras”).

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/parsha/take-me-with-you/2023/02/24/

The shul has no budget, and the b’nai mitzvah Jodi met have not been back to pray in the sanctuary since.

Source: https://forward.com/forward-newsletters/forwarding-the-news/554144/special-report-from-tbilisi-liberal-jews-start-shul-amid-orthodox-outrage/