Bark Mitzvah

[4] The Bark Mitzvah is a self-styled tongue-in-cheek dog "coming of age" celebration occasionally held by Jews for their pets.

During some Bark Mitzvahs, dogs wear a tallit, a ritual prayer shawl worn during Jewish religious services and ceremonies.

According to the Beverly Hills Courier, Max and Janet Salter celebrated the coming of age of their black cocker spaniel Duke of Windsor (Windy for short).

Mark Nadler, a New York cabaret singer, hired party planners and bartenders to ensure a special evening for Admiral Boom.

Nadler requested that as a Bark Mitzvah gift to Boom, guests make a donation to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Elvis Best "read" the Torah at his Bark Mitzvah in 2007.