Adoptee from China celebrates her bat mitzvah

[Drolefille]

I don't think they're making a big deal out of it. You act like because it's the NYT everything in it must be IMPORTANT NEWS. Or that they're trying to say it is important news Can you tell me you've never read the human interest stories that are just about some random people who live in the area? For example, today in my local paper there's a story about a Reverend who is also... a carpenter. Not news. Without Human Interest stories, newspapers don't keep their readership and lose subscribers to the internet.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by Taualumna

I just think they're making a big deal out of nothing.

Maybe it's "nothing" to you, but bat/bar mitvahs are an important rite of passage to members of the Jewish community, whether born into it, adopted into it (the girl in the article) or converted into it (Sammy Davis Jr., Charlotte from SATC).

[Taualumna]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

Maybe it's "nothing" to you, but bat/bar mitvahs are an important rite of passage to members of the Jewish community, whether born into it, adopted into it (the girl in the article) or converted into it (Sammy Davis Jr., Charlotte from SATC).

I just don't think they should have made a big deal out of a Chinese girl's bat mitzvah just because she's Chinese. They wouldn't have made a big deal out of a child from a country where there is a known Jewish population.