Mazeltov

At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann''s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious disaster. On the cusp of manhood - and the verge of a nervous breakdown - Adam has been bracing for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.

In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam''s coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic...