A bat mitzvah is a traditional Jewish coming of age ritual, where a Jewish girl (at age 12 or 13) becomes a woman in the eyes of her community. Modern day bat mitzvahs typically consist of both a ...
Selecting a mitzvah project can be a daunting task for any teenager preparing for their bar or bat mitzvah. But Madison (Maddie) Rosenfeld found it to be a simple one — soccer. “I want to help provide ...
As Jews, we celebrate adulthood at age 12 or 13. And while that may have once felt like adulthood, in the modern world, tweens are not considered grown-ups. Instead, b’nai mitzvah mark the beginning ...
NEW YORK - Bat Mitzvah is a special rite of passage for Jewish girls as they come of age. Instead of a big party, though, one girl from the Upper East Side turned her Bat Mitzvah into a mission to ...
The 2005 young-adult novel “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” by Fiona Rosenbloom, a pen name of Amanda Stern, recounts the falling-out of two best friends, Stacy Friedman and Lydia Katz, ...
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