NOUN (1)

1. (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility;
- Example: "a bar mitzvah is an important social event"


VERB (1)

1. confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish faith;

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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