{"id":648,"date":"2013-02-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/02\/bar-mitzvah-boy-goes-viral.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T13:15:30","slug":"bar-mitzvah-boy-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/02\/bar-mitzvah-boy-goes-viral.html","title":{"rendered":"Bar Mitzvah Boy Goes 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;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_sWoZJGCTQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We just went over Jewish practices this week in my religion class so my kids should appreciate this video a little more. It went viral and <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/21\/before-hes-a-man-bar-mitzvah-boy-goes-viral\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN picked up the video<\/a> and wrote an interesting story about how it developed. The\u00a0occasion\u00a0was the youth\u2019s bar mitzvah. \u00a0Instead of issuing an invitation, he developed this music video, writing the lyrics for the rap music himself. Of course, not everyone is happy about it. You can read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/21\/before-hes-a-man-bar-mitzvah-boy-goes-viral\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interesting\u00a0story here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just went over Jewish practices this week in my religion class so my kids should appreciate this video a little more. It went viral and CNN picked up the video and wrote an interesting story about how it developed. The\u00a0occasion\u00a0was the youth\u2019s bar mitzvah. \u00a0Instead of issuing an invitation, he developed this music video, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bar Mitzvah Boy Goes Viral<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We just went over Jewish practices this week in my religion class so my kids should appreciate this video a little more. 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