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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Synagogues are expanding options beyond the bat and bar mitzvah. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to ...

BOSTON – The chairs were set up, the wine was chilling for the kiddush, and the homemade baked goods for the oneg ready to be served. The blue and white balloons were dancing expectantly in the breeze ...

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 ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Liberal Jews in Israel are accusing the country’s president of discriminating against them by calling off a bar mitzvah ceremony at his residence. At the heart of the dispute is a ...

(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 ...