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, ...

JERUSALEM — Growing up in suburban Atlanta, Josh Fountain found time for swimming, but not for a bar mitzvah. He came to Israel this summer, one of 10,000 Jews from more than 60 countries, to compete ...

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 ...

For many people, their relationship with Judaism ends after their bar or bat mitzvah. After going through this coming of age ceremony, they become less and less engaged and eventually, unaffiliated ...

The nursing home residents celebrate a rite usually associated with adolescence. In a unique ceremony Saturday, four widows 86 to 92 years old celebrated a rite of passage traditionally associated ...

(The Conversation) — Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since. (The Conversation) — March 18, 2022, ...

Brother and sister Eliran and Ma’ayan at the Kotel Plaza. In a moving ceremony that was held at the Western Wall earlier this week, dozens of young Jews from India celebrated their Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.

To prepare for their role in creating Adam Sandler’s latest movie, crew members hit the Toronto bar and bat mitzvah circuit. Production designer Perry Blake and set decorator Julia Altschul, guided by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...