Bar Mitzvah

Josh Spokes’ Green Bar Mitzvah

By Rochelle Eisenberg
With clarity, Ellen Spokes recalls the day that she selected her son’s bar mitzvah theme. She had just received an invitation to an out-of-town bat mitzvah.
“It had layer after layer after layer of paper — inserts, bows, vellum,” she said. “It was gorgeous, but when I threw it out, I felt, like, […]