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Minding
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Young people learn the rules for sharing
in their friends' big day.
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Stacy Gittleman I Special to the Jewish News
n a typical Shabbat in
party (hint: one per guest).
any Jewish American
Fortunately, there are businesses
house of worship, there
like Joe Cornell Entertainment in
is a young man or woman seated
Southfield, co-owned by sister and
on the bimah. Dressed in a brand
brother team Steve Jasgur and
Rebecca Schlussel, to help these
new suit or dress, these kids try to
calm the butterflies in
young adults learn the
their stomachs before Above: Rebecca
unwritten rules they are
Schlussel
of
West
being called to the
expected to follow.
Torah for the very first Bloomfield talks with
On a Wednesday
Scott Katz, 11, of
time. You may think
evening Hebrew school
Farmington Hills.
they are the only one
session back in February,
in the building going
around 35 sixth- and
through a rite-of-passage ritual.
seventh-graders at Adat Shalom
However, their peers sitting in
Synagogue in Farmington Hills
the sanctuary are also enduring
were treated to an afternoon
their own coming-of-age test as
off from their regular stud-
they navigate the bar/bat mitzvah
ies to a 90-minute Joe Cornell
Entertainment workshop.
ceremony and party circuit. It may
The workshop, complete with
be their first exposure to a formal
occasion in an increasingly infor-
a candlelighting ceremony, cake
mal society.
and dancing, was a highly con-
Bar and bat mitzvah etiquette
densed sampling of a 12-week
starts with getting that invite in
course offered by the company
the mail (and responding in a
that teaches adolescents the fine
prompt manner) and ends with
points of attending a dance or
knowing whom to thank at the
other social occasion.
end of the evening (the parents),
Schlussel has been offer-
and how many favors you are
ing b'nai mitzvah etiquette for
allowed to take at the end of the
many years. Having just planned
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