bar mitzvah

bar mitzvah
    n 1: (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday
         of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious
         responsibility; "a bar mitzvah is an important social
         event"
    v 1: confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish
         faith
    

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "bar mitzvah":
      agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bas mitzvah,
      celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation,
      high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints,
      kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, pax,
      processional, reciting the rosary, telling of beads,
      the confessional, the confessionary