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 centuries-old tradition finally arrived for a 13-year-old boy bedecked in a royal blue suit and a pair of Nike high tops. His still-boyish voice, clear and sweet, filled the airy sanctuary of his ...

My favorite photo of my dad at his 1957 bar mitzvah shows him, tuxedoed but clearly pre-pubescent, proudly holding a sign that reads, “Today, I Am a Man.” The bar or bat mitzvah as an overnight ...

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 ...

(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 ...