Can't We All Just Get Along?: Letters to the Editor

In response to “Torah Learning for Jewish Youth” by Mark Oppenheimer:

I found it disappointing that Mark Oppenheimer missed the central flaw of Rabbi Salkin’s, B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary, which is that Jewish law does not require a 13-year-old boy to read from the Torah to become a bar mitzvah. That practice is a Reform construct not based in halakha. In fact, boys at the age of 13 automatically become a bar mitzvah whether they do anything or not to commemorate it. The same holds true of girls at 12.

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