Bar Mitzvah

 Last night, our family attended a Bar Mitzvah.   This is the first Bar Mitzvah that the kids and I have gone to, and the first in many years for Jason.

It was for Ethan's friend Ethan, whose dad was in my residency class.   We first went to a service at 10 am, where Ethan gave almost half of the service in Hebrew--quite impressive. 

Jason was quite nostalgic following the ceremony, and pulled out his old Bar Mitzvah video--check it out:

Actually, many people on the video have since passed away, so it is really nice for Jason to have.

Anyway, back to yesterday's bar mitzvah.....there was a big party for dinner, with a baseball theme.   The kids had a blast dancing and playing DJ games, and we enjoyed socializing with a few friends.  We also got some fun photo booth pics.

  

Of course, seeing a Bar Mitzvah like this certainly makes us wonder: have we done the "right" thing by raising our kids without religion?  There is definitely a community feeling associated with religion that we are missing out on.  And perhaps a slight lack of a sense of moral responsibility, though we try to teach that in other ways.  If someday, the kids want to explore religion more, that is fine with me.  I suppose we will never know, but we have done the best we could.