I was getting ready for my gig as a “motivational dancer” at a bar mitzvah party when my daughter, who at age 14 has just completed her year on the bar and bat mitzvah circuit, decided to give me some ...

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

“Cha cha real smooth” is the most interpretive part of a hallowed staple on the bar and bat mitzvah circuit — the “Cha Cha Slide.” The line dance, a straightforward prompt whose lyrics are ...

Rabbi David Wolpe criticizes a bar mitzvah party entrance that became a viral video hit on YouTube. But was Sam Horowitz’s the most extravagant bar mitzvah celebration? Poor Sammy. I say this with no ...

The Sandler family sure knows how to throw a party! Sunny Sandler, the youngest daughter of Jackie and Adam Sandler, rang in her 13th birthday with a Bat Mitzvah celebration that was sweet to say the ...

For nine months, Roni Faerman and her husband David watched their daughter Sami prepare for her bat mitzvah. Sami, who is 13 and has Down syndrome, attended her cousin’s ceremony four years ago. She ...

Becoming a teenager is a major milestone for any adolescent, but for Jewish youth, turning 13 bears even greater gravitas. Layla Harrison's meticulously planned bat mitzvah, a cultural and religious ...

The author’s uninvited visit to a bat mitzvah included a trip to the photo booth. Photo courtesy of Louis Keene On my nightstand is a modest pile of books that I have not read and — if everything goes ...

(JTA) – It seems hard to believe, but there’s never been a truly great bar/bat mitzvah movie — mostly because there just haven’t been that many bar/bat mitzvah movies, period. But after that, things ...

The bat mitzvah girl whose celebration in Copenhagen ended abruptly after the shooting death of a volunteer synagogue guard was feted in Israel. Hannah Bentow, 13, on Sunday night in Jerusalem had a ...