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Star Wars
continued for many years. When he was thirteen he had a bar
mitzvah, a Jewish ceremony in which a boy is initiated into adulthood.
Zuckerberg’s bar mitzvah party had a
Star Wars
theme.
Zuckerberg also loved to play practical jokes. One night he used
ZuckNet to scare his sister Donna. She was working on her computer
A poster advertises the 1977 movie
Star Wars
, the first in the popular
futuristic series. As a child, Zuckerberg was an avid fan of the films, even
playing the role of Luke Skywalker (center) in a film parody that he created
with his sisters.