Mitzvah Quotes

In my worst nightmares I never imagined that my people wouldn't care about the mitzvah of rescuing prisoners to such an extent that they would bring to power my former commander -- the man who betrayed and abandoned me for 21 years. - Jonathan Pollard

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs. - Chris Isaak

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere. - Jeremy Piven

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back. - Betsey Johnson

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. - Neil Gaiman

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me. - America Ferrera

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it. - Lizzy Caplan

From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson. - Israel Shenker

Charity is, of course, a kind of Mitzvah. - Lisa Cohen

All three were converting, but the bar mitzvah boy was the only officially Jewish one by the time the day came around. - Tom Cohen