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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this was a "help me plan a sweet 16 for 150 people for under $10k" thread, OP would have gotten all kinds of good advice. Instead she got a freak show of self hating Jews weighing in on the merits of a religious right of passage they clearly do not understand. Judaism does not require an expensive party, synagogues do not turn people away if they cannot pay dues. [/quote]

(A) this is DCUM. People would criticize the sweet 16 too (do sweet 16 parties exist anymore?).

(B) you might hate people who decided to turn our backs on organized religion but we do not hate ourselves. I'm not a self-hating Jew; I'm a Jewish person who dislikes and rejects that aspect of practice.

(C) you have to make up your mind between self-hating and don't understand. They're incompatible. I actually do understand. I was raised in an orthodox family, attended Jewish day school until 5th grade, then proceeded with Hebrew school and a bat mitzvah. And I've lived in Israel.  I know exactly what this rite of passage is, and all of the congregational bullshit about whom you have to invite and feed has nothing to do with it. It's a bizarre American invention. 
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