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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would send a congratulatory card with a check in it closer to the event, not in the reply card (hint - don't wait until Fri night to run to CVS or the grocery store to get the card, because they will have run out).

I'm in an inter-faith family, and no way would I compare my niece and nephews confirmation in first or second grade (where they are all dressed up as brides and grooms - I get the bride of Christ thing, but [b]still find it creepy) [/b]or even the one when they were 14 15 16? To our kids Bar Mitzvahs. Showing up/dressing up and accepting the sacrament (younger), and [b]listening to the bishop screaming about not having premarital sex[/b] (older) is not the same as learning to read from the Torah, in a different language, with different letters, and running an entire service in front of family and friends. Those who think it's a money grab, are clearly not Jewish. It has nothing to do with the money, and all about how proud you are of your child/relative for learning amd doing all this at age 13.  I have a large family, my husband has a large family too.  So, the Bar Mitavahs we held were huge (and the only ones husbands family had ever been to, including all the nieces and nephews from Texas who all went to Catholic School).  Believe me, I wish they didn't have to be so big, but that's what big families do.  What the kids got in $$ was about 1/4 of what we spent (and they weren't fancy/formal, just large) so if it was all about $$ we wouldn't of had one and could have just saved that money. [/quote]

Yes, of course, all Jewish traditions, even if they’re an obvious money grab because you don’t even socialize with the work colleague who has never met your kid, are awesome and solemn events. And anything involving Christianity is creepy and involves screaming bishops.

I pity your husband and kids, pp. You suck.[/quote]

And then you go to the thread on where should Jews live and wonder why interfaith relations are bad. Top pp, you need to learn tolerance yourself.[/quote]

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