In a message dated 1/5/2004 4:38:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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I guess I could be as my greatgrandmother was, My middle son, Ezra is
studying his Torah portion for a spring Bah Mitzva
Creighton,

If your greatgrandmother was, you might be.  I'll have to check with a
particularly obnoxious coworker and coreligionist to find out just how far the
doctrine of matrilinear descent extends.  And what's the story about Ezra and his
BM (it's either a "bar" meaning "son" for a male, or a "bat" [pronounced bot]
meaning daughter for a woperdaughter)?

Although maybe in Boston male children have Bah Mitzvahs befoah they pahk
their cah in Hahvid Yad and chahge it.

Ralph