The Jewish rite of passage into adulthood is more than simply a ritual, according to Bennett, Shell and Kroll. The bar and bat mitzvahs of their youth evoke reminiscences that had been "left to ...

When Justin Kodroff had his bar mitzvah party in 2006, Lil Jon’s “Snap Yo Fingers” and Yung Joc’s “It’s Goin’ Down” were as big of hits on the dance floor as they were on MTV and VH1, which then still ...

Have tough economic times forced you to scale back your child’s bar or bat mitzvah party plans? With your 401(k) down, is the ice sculpture out? Is your resetting ARM making you reconsider that ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Solomon Levin loves playing the drums, so it should come as no surprise he incorporated music into his upcoming bar mitzvah. "Every bar mitzvah kid is expected to do a major mitzvah ...

I was anxious about singing biblical Hebrew in front of so many family and friends. By the big day, I had completely ...

Sometimes a movie hits you so aggressively Jewish, you're transported back to your own coming-of-age Hebrew school experience −a time when the weekly status symbol was whether you were wearing that ...

(New York Jewish Week) – When Eli Golden started 8th grade at a Westchester public school last fall, he had the ultimate answer to the standard question: “What did you do over the summer?” While his ...

A state-of-the-art New York bar mitzvah owes more than a little to theater, and like all theater, it requires props. That's where Pat James comes in. An event planner with the soul of a Broadway ...

March 21, 2020. That’s the date of my son Leo’s Bar Mitzvah. Aside from having one of the hardest and most boring Torah portions, it seemed like a pretty good date. My wife, Jill, Leo and I had put a ...

Eli Golden plays Evan Goldman in the Netflix adaptation of the Broadway show about a Jewish fish out of water. (New York Jewish Week) – When Eli Golden started 8th grade at a Westchester public school ...