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[quote=Anonymous]This is such an interesting post.  We just had a Bat Mitzvah and did shirts.  My daughter is not at a W feeder school and is one of maybe 3 Jewish kids in her class, the only one who had a BM.  All of the invited kids wore the shirts the next day and I thought of it as celebrating her - and supporting her Judaism since she is such a minority at the school.  She wanted to give sweatshirts because it was a generous gift (believe me, we couldn’t do “all the trappings” so we spring for the shirts and cut back on other ways).  I did not think of how it must make other kids feel who were not invited..  Ironically, we have a younger kid with autism who will be in middle school with a lot of other Jewish kids and I am certain will not be invited to many.  She will not want to give away shirts at favors at hers, but this post has made me think differently.  I also wanted to add another perspective as a parent who is not in one of those schools where this is commonplace.  My daughter has a Jewish community from camp and Hebrew school, and most of them did an article of clothing as favors.  I think she wanted to follow suit and give her non-Jewish friends something that felt personal and special.  It really surprised me too that kids would wear something with other kids names on it![/quote]

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