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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, can you switch congregations or is it too late? Very surprised to hear that the rabbi’s wife is so involved in a reform congregation. Please bring this up to your board President. I’m on the board of my temple. We do not put balloons on our building  but your temple staff should be working with you in other ways to accommodate you if your building doesn’t have signage that makes it easy for your guests to find.[b] Our former rabbi would act like it was just a regular service that happened to include a bar/bat mitzvah rather than the family’s special day[/b]. It was very annoying. Please advocate with others for what you need and hopefully you can find a compromise.[/quote]

A) I don’t see what the problem is— certainly a rabbi should be encouraging and congratulatory but not to the point of making the day about the bar mitzvah and B) at some larger congregations there are bar mitzvahs every week (or even two) so it is literally true that a shabbat with a bar mitzvah is like every other week  [/quote]

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