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What is a Bar Mitzvah Disco?
The Bar/Bat Mitzvah is the ultimate coming of age rite of passage for our generation. The Bar Mitzvah Disco is a chance, for one evening only, to celebrate your youth, reclaim your innocence, get to second base and try and stretch it into an inside the park home run, inhale the dry ice, bust out the vinyl and dance to a Flock of Seagulls in public one last time, dust off your electric slide (It’s electric), and celebrate that special little boy or girl now they are all grow’d up. And to do all of the above now you are really old enough to appreciate it.

Who should have a Bar Mitzvah Disco?
Everyone and anyone. If you have already broken the cardinal rule of bar mitzvahs by having one when you are not even Jewish, why stop there? The age requirement should go out of the window. Thirteen going on Dirty. In our mind, if you are old enough to legally buy a Bud, you are ripe enough to have a Bar Mitzvah Disco.

What is the minimum I need to throw a Bar Mitzvah Disco?

1. Friends: you should know who they are, they’re the people who stick by you through thick and thin. When the dog track has your last dollar and final shred of dignity, its your friends who’ll come and take care you.
2. An invite: Download your own BMD invitation template.
3. A Venue: a bar, a home, a suburban rec room, a church choir loft: Any space will do. You want a venue that’s like a Cadillac ­ roomy and gets better with age.
4. Music: critical. Because the DJ has supplanted the rabbi as the centrifugal force of the event. Best to have a locale with a decent sound system because, as Marshal McCluhan said, "The Music is the Message". Load up the iPod with some of the following: YMCA, The Electric Slide, Push it, Vogue mixed into Like a Virgin, Kiss, Any Michael Jackson song, Bust a Move. You get the drift.
5. Food: Buffets are the single most crucial ceremony in bar mitzvahs. Three of the following four must be present in copious quantities: Pigs in a Blanket, Pizza Bagels, small hamburgers and prawns.
6. Clothing: shoulder pads, assymetrical hemlines, Z Cavarricis, Benetton Rugby shirts, gaping cleavages, ruffles ruffles ruffles, Vuarnet shades, Laura Ashley Vintage… Whatever it is, its got to make you feel sexy and awkward at the same time.

For a more detailed guide to the science/art of throwing a Bar Mitzvah Disco, download our DIY Guide, written by Enrique Goldfarb originally released in 1982.