If you go to a bar mitzvah or a Jewish wedding, you're guaranteed to come away with two things:   a souvenir yarmulke, and a story.

Years later, when the toasts have been forgotten and the purple-and-teal dresses have been lost to the far recesses of the closet, those yarmulkes can still conjure up the stories behind these rites of passage.   Listen in on these intimate, personal reflections as a little circle of fabric connects people back to the profoundly human experience of those life events.

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Susan Margery Banashek - June 14, 1991
Susan and her mother, Esther, discuss Susan's bat Mitzvah.

Produced by Ben Kaplan and Eric Ratinoff
Edited and Directed by Ben Kaplan
Music by The Klezmatics

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