Lately Claire Saffitz and her husband, Harris Mayer-Selinger, have spent a lot of time reflecting on their respective bar and bat mitzvahs. While Saffitz grew up in the not so Jewish city of St. Louis, Mayer-Selinger hails from bar mitzvah mecca: Long Island. “It’s become a joke between us. My husband says with pride that his bar mitzvah was in the top three best ones of his town. When he told me he had ‘motivators’ at his party I was like, ‘What’s that?’ He was like, ‘You know, those hype people.’ It was so crazy to me,” she tells
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