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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you posted previously about this bar mitzvah in Israel? If that was you, I remember that your sister is selfish. This thread here reinforces the idea that your sister is incredibly selfish and also possibly a bit stupid. For your nephew’s sake, I hope the new local plan works out well.[/quote]

OP here. I did post, but you may not be thinking of me, as this was well over a year ago. I was complaining at that time about all the precovid reasons I didn’t want to go (expense, vacation time, time away from family vs pulling cousins from school, fear of flying, having no interest in vacationing in Israel  etc etc) General consensus at that time was that I should suck it up and go. Which, to be fair, what I was doing until last week. And, I swear, zero complaining to sister after I made the decision to go. However, I think part of this is that I’m now paying the price, somewhat, for initial reluctance in that story seems to be I’m happy to have an excuse not to go. My mother also initially, as in two years ago, offered to pay for an entire local huge party if they would just do the ceremony either here or with immediate family only in Israel. 90% of invited guests weren’t ever coming. So, it wasn’t just me.

Btw, I know some families have lovely extended family trips for all sorts of destination events. This event had a ton of baggage from get go (which is kind of beside the point now).  But, I don’t want to sound like no one should ever go to Israel for a Bnai Mitzvah.
I’m sure it’s a great option in some cases. But for many reasons (ranging from logistical to political to liturgical) it was a really bad idea in this case.

I’ll also mention that their older child, my niece, had an amazing bat mitzvah three years ago. Huge family attendance.
No drama. Beautiful event. [/quote]

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