Mom and Dad Are Fighting

How to Pull Off a Bar Mitzvah for Your Atheist Son

Mom and Dad Are Fighting chats with a mother who forced her son to have a bar mitzvah.

For May 26’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Mom and Dad Are Fighting invites Slate’s DoubleX Gabfest host Hanna Rosin to talk about a recent “triumphant failure” in her life: her teenage son’s bar mitzvah. Listen to Hanna’s struggles with forcing her atheist son to go through the ceremony, and how the whole thing turned out to be an unexpected success.

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