Instead of a male or female coming-of-age ceremony, one Jewish teen decided to do ‘something in the middle’. She explains why
There was never any question that Ruby Marx, a 13-year-old from Massachusetts, would have a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. But while the event is traditionally delineated by gender – boys have bar mitzvahs and girls have bat mitzahs – Ruby decided instead to have a gender-neutral ceremony known as a B mitzvah or b’nai mitzvah.
At the ceremony, the rabbi’s blessing for Ruby included these words: “Keep bringing your full self to the world. The world needs people that don’t shy away from their true self; we will always be there for you.”
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