Notes from Limmud 2007: How Barmitzvah Parties Began

( Did you know it used to be customary for minors to read Torah and act as שלחי ציבור? )

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BBC News reports:

An online bidding war is taking place for a five-year-old Wispa bar. [...] So far bidding for the bar has reached £29 - at least 60 times its original asking price when it was sold. [...] Peter Bonner, who led the Bring Back Wispa campaign said the auction might appeal to be people who want a memento from their childhood. He said he thought it might sell for as much as £50.

This article was last updated at 15:45 this afternoon. At 17:05 when I read it and had a gander at eBay the bar was going for £265. (Okay, so it's being sold for charity, but still...)

I hadn't even noticed Wispa bars were no longer being sold...