Toward the end of his viral bar mitzvah video, Brody Criz says: “It’s all about me.” Which, of course, pretty well sums up the whole thing. Another slick bar mitzvah invitation video of questionable ...

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Lyla Maymon and Jane Shvartzman went to interview officials last year at Larkin Street Youth Services, a local organization fighting homelessness among young people, to see if ...

Since last April, 12-year-old Orion Cooper of South Burlington has sewn 75 masks from brightly colored bandannas. He’s donated them to the University of Vermont Medical Center, the South Burlington ...

"This idea of doing a mitzvah, doing good for others, forgiveness, making mistakes, not doing things perfectly, but moving through that together … There's a very Jewish side to all of this that makes ...

Drop everything and watch this: Brody Criz just created the bar mitzvah video invitation to end all bar mitzvah video invitations. The clip, posted to YouTube on Feb. 26, has more than 901,000 views ...

Shay Vinitsky began studying privately for his bar mitzvah in spring 2009, a full year before his March 2010 date. But it wasn’t until the next winter, when Shay and his classmates at the Ohn School ...

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It’s not easy for a kid to find out that his parents are spies, and that he and his sister have to rescue them from evildoers. But it’s not as hard as trying to learn Hebrew from scratch in six months ...

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Lyla Maymon and Jane Shvartzman went to interview officials last year at the Larkin Street Youth, a local organization fighting homelessness among young people, to see if their ...