[Avodah] Proposal for Transforming the Bar Mitzvah -- By Yosef Adler & Yossi Prager -- In Jewish Action -- Winter 5766-2005

[Prof. Levine via Avodah]

A Modest Proposal for Transforming the Bar Mitzvah
By Yosef Adler and Yossi Prager

In Jewish Action -- Winter 5766-2005
<http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/ja/5766/winter66/ModestProposal.pdf>

There is no halachic requirement that reaching the age of mitzvot be
accompanied by Torah reading. In many Chareidi communities today most
Bar Mitzvah boys read only maftir and the haftarah. Both basic halachah
and the practice of these communities demonstrate that we are not bound
by our current Bar Mitzvah approach. In fact, current thinking about
Jewish education virtually demands that we make a change.

See the article referred to above at the URL given above.