(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"
confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish faith
god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas