{"id":481,"date":"2013-08-15T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/sam-horowitz-video-bar-mitzvah-battles-go-viral.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:37:14","slug":"sam-horowitz-video-bar-mitzvah-battles-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/sam-horowitz-video-bar-mitzvah-battles-go-viral.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Horowitz Video: Bar Mitzvah Battles Go Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-ByhUDUllM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"256\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">Sam Horowitz\u2019s video of his Bar Mitzvah celebration went viral this week. \u00a0In it, Las Vegas-like show girls perform a dance, almost seductively, until near the end, young Sam Horowitz emerges and joins the dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some find the video offensive. In an editorial in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/wp\/2013\/08\/15\/have-we-forgotten-what-bar-mitzvahs-are-all-about\/?wprss=rss_on-faith\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington Post, David Wolpe<\/a> suggests that the dance teaches a young child \u201c<em>sexualization of spirit.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 In addition, he says, \u201ct<em>he Bar Mitzvah (which is a stage a child reaches, not the name of a ceremony) is important because one becomes responsible for the mitzvot, not because one poorly approximates a pubescent Justin Timberlake<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In short, he finds the video \u201cgodless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/wp\/2013\/08\/15\/sam-horowitz-video-bar-mitzvah-battles-go-viral\/?wprss=rss_on-faith\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brad Hirschfield, also writing for the Pos<\/a>t think that we might be too quick to judge. Maybe the dance was never meant to reflect the \u201creligious part\u201d of the celebration. \u00a0 In addition, the two minute dance routine is a small part of the larger celebration. \u00a0\u201c\u2026No celebration should be reduced to any single part of the whole.\u201d<br>\nAre these videos considered degrading? Disrespectful of Judaism? Disrespectful generally of religious festivals? These are good questions a religion class could debate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Horowitz\u2019s video of his Bar Mitzvah celebration went viral this week. \u00a0In it, Las Vegas-like show girls perform a dance, almost seductively, until near the end, young Sam Horowitz emerges and joins the dance. Some find the video offensive. 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