Everything’s going digital. Even bar mitzvah preparation. Some tech-savvy parents are signing up their kids for a more modern brand of bar mitzvah lessons, rather than schlepping them to the synagogue ...

Rabbi Vicki Axe sits in the kitchen of her Stamford home facing Armand Filatov, photocopied pages with a portion of the Torah stacked in front of her on a stool, her pencil poised and ready. "Were you ...

Postponing a Bar Mitzvah is not on the list of what Jewish mothers worry about before their child’s big day: Will he get sick? Will there be a blizzard that prevents people from coming? Will the ...

We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The ...

Vanessa Bayer plays the recurring character “Jacob the bar mitzvah boy” on Saturday Night Live. Pictured: Vanessa Bayer visiting the SiriusXM Studios in New York, May 30, 2018. Photo credit: Taylor ...

My third son Avi’s Bar Mitzvah is fast approaching! Although I used an event planner for my eldest and second sons’ Bar Mitzvahs, I decided to plan everything myself this time around. Boy, do I regret ...