My Happiest Moment as a Fannish Jew (Jewish Fan?)

[lomedet]

My squee for this was more intense than my squee for just about anything ever, and I wasn't even properly in fandom yet.

When it aired, the Sports Night episode April Is The Cruelest Month made my heart absolutely explode with joy, for the following reasons

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[mofic]

That sounds just wonderful! My favorite fannish Jewish moment goes way back to my childhood - when Jews on TV were rare and Jewish religious practice rarer. It was an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in which Rob and Sally think that Buddy is having an affair, because he's clearly hiding something, but what he's really hiding is that he is studying to have an adult bar mitzvah.

[nyssa23]

Wow! I love that show too; wish I'd seen that episode (I just had my adult bat mitzvah last week.) :D

[shayheyred]

Mazel tov!

[nyssa23]

Aw, thanks. ^_^ It was two years of pretty intense study; I am proud to have finally reached this milestone! I guess now I'm finally a woman at age 33. LOL

[mofic]

Good for you!

[lomedet]

Siman tov u'mazal tov! That's way cool!

[lomedet]

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An adult bar mitzvah? On The Dick Van Dyke Show? That is awesome with a side of awesomesauce.

[mofic]

You know, with the surprise this comment engendered, I started wondering if I hallucinated the whole thing. I certainly have not seen that particular episode since childhood. And did people even have adult bar mitzvahs in the 1960s? As I remembered it, it wasn't a kind of institutionalized thing the way a lot of congregations do it now, but Buddy just always feeling bad about not having had a bar mitzvah and deciding on his own to do it as an adult. So did my feverish brain make the whole thing up, based on adult bnai mitzvah I've been to? No