Long Bar mitzvah Poems

1.

Our blessing, our son, our family clown
The cracker of jokes, the soother of strife
Takes it all in, teaches us to slow down
Although he bungee jumped straight into life

Yes, when he’s ready, he can move so...

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Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language

When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to describe a situation
perfectly verbalized and couched by
a dialect of High German including
some Hebrew...

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Trying to get in the game  my whole life. 
Don't know what team I'm on. 
Which one wants me? 
Who will accept me? 
Been going to the field for 52 years and still trying...

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The Jewish brothers in Defiance were definitely tough.
One wanted to kill many Germans, the other to save many Jews.
The German soldiers were expendable, unmarried, unremarkable.
Each little death was very little, a little spittle in a...

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One group of activists decided to fight. 
To see family lose their sense of might. 
Three people involved in each battle. 
For the patients each feeling like cattle. 

Five days of care each week is...

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DESPERATION       V\S       PASSION


Desperation gives you coup de grace
               ...

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I've got a Bobble Head Buddha
That nods on the dash
Some guy named Gideon
Whose Bible rides in the back

Rainbow covered Rosary beads
Hang from my mirror with ease
I've got all the bases covered
As pretty as you please

Have...

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I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these poor people, my own people.

In a globalized and interdependent world,
the...

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When life's not going right
Guess you could say it's going wrong
Do what it is I always do
Pick up the telephone
Dial my favorite number
They've never steered me wrong
Of course that number is
1-800-Not My Fault

In any situation
At...

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I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these poor people, my own people.

In a globalized and interdependent world,
the...

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(09/19/11)

I was always taught that JESUS CHRIST  was a Jew.
Then there is a question that I must ask of you.
If he was a Jew- did he have a bar-mitzvah?
Or was he just put on...

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At eleven years old, by my Dad I was told
  that I'd soon be enrolled, in a special Hebrew program

Try it for a year, my son, my dear
  Do not fear: It'll be...

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Going through a closet,
I was quite surprised to find
Several shopping bags of t-shirts
That my son had left behind.

While looking at them, one by one,
I realized they portrayed
His entire growing up, through college,
Starting in first grade.

The...

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AMETHYST
                          HEY MY AMETHYST,I'LL BE YOUR HERO.
   ...

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He was famous for being famous,
Nobody knew what he’d done:
But he was famous for being famous 
And that was good enough some.
And he was there at every function
Party, Birthday,  Bar Mitzvah, barbecue
In fact if...

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A Jew looks at the blue of his ritual fringe *
    thinks of the wonderful world he's in

  The deep blue of the sea meets the horizon
    blue...

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BAIRN
                             THE MORNING I GOT UP AND...

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In Judaism, at 13,
A boy becomes a man
With Torah* reading and a party;
That’s the standard plan.

But Yisrael Kristal missed his chance -
The war got in the way – 
And then 100 years passed by –...

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                      Out mine vindow
          ...

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