Billionaire hires Destiny's Child (For Son's Bar Mitzvah)

British retail billionaire Philip Green has hired chart-topping R&B group Destiny's Child to perform at his son's bar mitzvah.

The stars are set to entertain guests at the three-day event on the French Riviera estimated to have cost the Bhs and Top Shop boss £4m ($7.4m).

Singer Justin Timberlake could also be performing, The Times reports.

Mr Green is said to have chartered a plane to fly about 200 of his family's friends to the bash this weekend.

I am rendered speechless. I will let these words, by a Reform rabbi no less, comfort me.

In a resolution written by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein of North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, IL the board declared that, "due to excessive and inappropriate celebration, bar/bat mitzvah has become an occasion for idolatry and the relentless commercial colonization of our sacred events."

From "When Bar/Bat Mitzvah Loses Meaning"