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

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 ...

World War II broke out before he could celebrate the milestone. A month before Samuel Heider was to be bar mitzvahed, a rite of passage for every Jewish teen, World War II broke out. When the Nazis ...

I was not supposed to like Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” Here is why. Some 30 years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah ...

On the days my two sons were born, we began saving for their bar mitzvahs. In Jewish tradition, it’s customary for a 13-year-old to read from the Torah and then have a party to celebrate their ...

March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...

About a year before Caleb’s bar mitzvah, he and his parents met with Temple Emanu El Rabbi Matt Cohen to try to figure out the right project for him. “Typically, students will come up with a mitzvah ...

Marco Lawrence Adams became a bar mitzvah on Saturday evening, Nov. 1, at Park Synagogue. Marco is the son of Benjamin M.