Nothing Exceeds like Excess

And nothing assimilates like being assimilated...

BrooklynDodger at home tries to avoid mocking and also avoid making fun of tragedy. Sometimes the Dodger gives in, as with the preacher electrocuted in the baptism font. This is basically about Jews becoming white, although if you see the added picture of the Bat Mitzvah girl's mothers tan, you might wonder if the mother is entered in the Mrs. Melanoma contest...

The style section was the only one lying in reach on the way to...

And it turns out that Firefox copies stuff into postings that internet explorer won't. So, you get to see pictures, rather than just words of excess. There's another article in the style section about a Bat Mitzvah as well.

If these parents could afford a $27,000 dress, and had enough stroke to get free entertainment, how come their house wasn't big enough to give the party?

Also, what was Ambers torah portion about?


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Wedding Singers? Not!

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LOOK WHO CAME TO AMBER'S BAT MITZVAH: Amber Ridinger, crowned, with Ashanti, left, and Ja Rule, who performed at her party in Miami.

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  JA RULE stopped by a party at Shaquille O'Neal's mansion in Miami Beach the Friday night before last as a favor to the host, who asked him to grab a microphone and rock the house to surprise his guests. He obliged, he told friends, but for only two numbers. Ja Rule, the platinum-selling rapper accustomed to Madison Square Garden, could not afford to strain his vocal cords. He had an important gig the next night. He was playing a Miami steakhouse. The occasion was a bat mitzvah.

  
  

The next night he displayed considerably more fire, performing for more than an hour in front of 215 friends and relatives of Amber Ridinger, 13, sometimes barking out their names as he rapped. But that wasn't all. As he closed out the set, another superstar, Ashanti, joined him onstage for three numbers. As they performed, Amber stood onstage with them, in a $27,000 Dolce & Gabbana dress, waving to the crowd, particularly her deep-pocketed parents, Loren and J. R. Ridinger, the founder of an Internet marketing company.