I have seen that some kids truly just go through the motions because their parents are making them do it while others embrace the experience and everything in between. I have seen a variety of different ways the kids participate in their own services, by choice and by requirement. I have watched a lot of kids go through the work necessary for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Aimee Lucido managed to bring all of this together in Recipe for Disaster. For many it is about finally being able to stop going to Hebrew school. For a lot of kids, it is about the party.
A Bar/Bat Mitzvah is a day worked for, waited for, sometimes dreaded, that is supposed to be a big marker for adulthood in the Jewish community. 2021 was supposed to be the year of 6 but only one managed to happen before Covid hit. A normal year sees maybe 1 kid have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. For those who don’t know me personally, in my “spare time” I am the director of a very small religious school.
Part of what makes this book so powerful to me has to do with Covid and what it has done to today’s generation of Bar and Bat Mitzvah kids, my own included.
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