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Baker: "We Have the Backs" of Those Practicing Faith
1/6/20 5:11 PM

After the first bar mitzvah he attended as an adult, Gov. Charlie Baker was so enamored with the idea of parents making a speech or writing a letter detailing their aspirations for their child that he "stole it" from the Jewish faith and adapted it into a secular part of his own children's 13th birthday celebrations.