Seth David Leo Newman will become a bar mitzvah Saturday morning, Jan. 17, at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation. Seth is the son of ...

The Jewish ritual of bar mitzvah. which marks a 13-year-old young man’s assumption of religious and legal obligations under Jewish law. Israel_photo_gallery, CC BY-ND It is a common scene on many a ...

Turns out a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall requires far more than just a reservation - and Erez Landau reveals exactly how to transform it into your family's defining moment.

From supporting a struggling tourism industry to seizing unparalleled travel opportunities, here’s why a Bar Mitzvah trip to ...

Louis Keene is covering the fires in Los Angeles, where he is based. Follow him on X for live updates. Rabbi Paul Kipnes swept the placemats and coffee mugs off his kitchen table, and laid a cloth on ...

World War II broke out before he could celebrate the milestone. A month before Samuel Heider was to be bar mitzvahed, a rite of passage for every Jewish teen, World War II broke out. When the Nazis ...

The Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration, Judaism's rite of passage, could be delayed until after the traditional age of 13 in an attempt to keep Jews active in the religion later in life. The problem, as ...

I was not supposed to like Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” Here is why. Some 30 years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah ...