For the vast majority Jewish education is confined to a few hours a week and ends at age 13, after bar-(or bat-, for girls) mitzva.

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Yet for all that, he never had a bar mitzva.

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Instead, as Iran races to the nuclear finish line, America's Jewish leaders were forced to sit through White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel's kitschy Borscht Belt schmooze about his bar mitzva.

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