‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ review: Sandlers score

[ad_1] Open your heart and turn off your logic meter and you‘re going to enjoy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” You don’t have to be Jewish — or 13 years old — to appreciate this warmly wacky coming-of-age comedy set against the bar/bat/b’nai mitzvah circuit. But it wouldn’t hurt. One part… Continue reading ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ review: Sandlers score

‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Is Spiky & Sweet

[ad_1] Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix The heroine of You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah likes to confide in the Almighty, a habit that puts her in the tradition of a certain famous Judy Blume character who got her own big-screen outing earlier this year. Like Margaret Simon, Stacy Friedman is enduring the agonies… Continue reading ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Is Spiky & Sweet

The Best Bar and Bat Mitzvahs in Movies and TV Shows

[ad_1] When I was in seventh grade, I only cared about three things: pulling off skirts over jeans, marrying Tom Welling, and having an epic bat mitzvah. It wasn’t the reading-my-haftarah-on-stage part that I was worried about or my forthcoming entrance into Jewish adulthood; in my tiny Westchester town — like many other small, largely… Continue reading The Best Bar and Bat Mitzvahs in Movies and TV Shows