There are few events in Jewish life as significant as a bar or bat mitzvah, the coming-of-age milestone often celebrated alongside a party for family and friends. And for such an important occasion, ...

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 ...

A Columbus Orthodox rabbi has called for the abolition of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony in American Judaism on the premise that “nothing has contributed more to the adulteration of faith and the confusion ...

When Dennis Fries’ father was a boy, bar mitzvah to him meant no more Wednesday evenings spent in Hebrew school. Some 20 years later, the bar mitzvah ("son of the commandment" in Hebrew) has taken a ...

A 13-year-old dog is now ready for his next stage in life now that he’s had his "Bark Mitzvah." Ruth and Craig Ellenberg celebrated the milestone birthday with their beloved Havanese dog Rambo earlier ...

I begin by extending warm wishes to those readers currently celebrating their most solemn and important religious holidays; to Christians I wish a blessed Easter, and to Muslims a Ramadan kareem and ...

The nursing home residents celebrate a rite usually associated with adolescence. In a unique ceremony Saturday, four widows 86 to 92 years old celebrated a rite of passage traditionally associated ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Liberal Jews in Israel are accusing the country’s president of discriminating against them by calling off a bar mitzvah ceremony at his residence. At the heart of the dispute is a ...

The bar mitzvah boy read from a Torah scroll donated by Jared Kushner, who helped broker a normalization agreement between Bahrain and Israel. (JTA) — The Jewish community of Bahrain celebrated the ...

(WALTHAM, MASS.) It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls, a few not Jewish at all, gather in ...

A 13-year-old dog is now ready for his next stage in life now that he’s had his “Bark Mitzvah.” Ruth and Craig Ellenberg celebrated the milestone birthday with their beloved Havanese dog Rambo earlier ...