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 ...

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

A young Jewish boy celebrates his Bar Mitzvah with Colel Chabad at the Western Wall. In a sign of optimism and hope on an otherwise challenging day for Israeli society amidst the ongoing protests and ...

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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 ...

For many people, their relationship with Judaism ends after their bar or bat mitzvah. After going through this coming of age ceremony, they become less and less engaged and eventually, unaffiliated ...

Michael Witkes, who performs as Pink Pancake, revisits his Jewish adolescence in “Today You Are a Man!” at The Tank NYC. (New York Jewish Week) – When Michael Witkes arrived at his bar mitzvah party, ...

(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 ...

My second chance was Sunday, June 5, as the only male in a group of nine adults, including my wife, Lauren, as I celebrated my adult bar mitzvah. A bar mitzvah (for a boy) or bat mitzvah (for a girl) ...

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, ...

SAN DIEGO – The movie 31 Candles stars Jonah Feingold as 30-year-old Leo Kadner, who is short and dyslexic, and the woman of his romantic fantasies, Eva Shapiro (Sarah Coffey), who at 6’ 1 ½ is too ...

Kamran Hekmati, 70, was detained earlier this year during brief trip; is held in notorious Evin prison; US calls for his ...