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My Bat Mitzvah

Joy Levitt remembers challenging her childhood rabbi when she thought she was being treated unfairly, and how he raised the ante.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "My Bat Mitzvah." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/my-bat-mitzvah>.