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, ...

A Jewish congregation in Palm Beach hosted a bat mitzvah ceremony last month for four women who did not celebrate as teenagers. Chabad House Palm Beach held its second bat mitzvah milestone ...

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 ...

Seventh-grade student Maya Klein wanted to do something big for her bat mitzvah project. Serving as a community-oriented initiative for Jewish teenagers, the project is meant to have a positive impact ...

12-year-old Avital "Tali" David celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at Temple Emanuel in Gastonia. The Bat Mitzvah ceremony marks a girl's transition to adulthood in Judaism. Tali spent months preparing for ...

As Jews, we celebrate adulthood at age 12 or 13. And while that may have once felt like adulthood, in the modern world, tweens are not considered grown-ups. Instead, b’nai mitzvah mark the beginning ...

Akiko Minami and Micah Posner held their fingers up in a sign of peace and unity on Saturday as their daughter Emunah played guitar and led the congregation at Temple Beth El in Aptos in a heartfelt ...

Helene Feldstein, 92, grew up immersed in Judaism, with a grandfather who was a rabbi and a cantor. Still, she had never dreamed of getting a bat mitzvah. “Seventy-five years ago, there was no thought ...

I remember that she wore a white silk suit and an emerald green shirt. She looked beautiful, my mother, standing in the center aisle of the synagogue, at my bat mitzvah. I remember staring out at her, ...

The March 26 event at The Colony included a recitation of a chapter of Psalms, an address from Rabbi Zalman Levitin and a video presentation. The four women took an eight-week bat mitzvah course prior ...