Five teenage boys who escaped the first week of Russia’s 2022 invasion celebrated their bar mitzvahs this week in Ashkelon.

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Most religions have their coming-of-age celebrations in which children enter adolescence and adulthood. In the Jewish faith, this is called a bar and bat mitzvah, and it is a joyous event in which ...

Reform Judaism in the 19th-century replaced bar mitzvah with Confirmation, a group ceremony for both boys and girls at age 15 or 16, usually held on Shavuot, the late springtime festival ...

The United Mashadi Jewish Community of America (UMJCA) women’s solidarity mission partnered with the organization OneFamily to host a special bat mitzvah party in Jerusalem for Israeli girls who ...

Dozens of bereaved girls gather for group bat mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem New York-based family of Ruth Werthenschlag, 12, sponsors joint event for those who have lost immediate family ...

But if some aspects of a bar or bat mitzvah aren’t quite mature, the gifts kids receive, in the form of all those checks in multiples of $18, often are. Many will be receiving their own money for the ...

In this op-ed, Jay Saper explores a progressive approach to Bat Mitvah, as laid out in the new book, Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah A 19-year-old accused neo-Nazi who lived in my Midwest ...

When I was in seventh grade, I only cared about three things: pulling off skirts over jeans, marrying Tom Welling, and having an epic bat mitzvah. It wasn’t the reading-my-haftarah-on-stage part ...

In fact, the Paradesi Synagogue in Mattancherry will host Bar Mitzvah of two boys on Saturday. ... The same ritual for girls is named Bat Mitzvah and is observed when they turn 12.

Show him just how proud you are of this major accomplishment — and his symbolic transition from a boy into a man in Jewish tradition — with a bar mitzvah gift he's sure to cherish. In our ...