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, ...

It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls, a few not Jewish at all, gather in synagogues and temples ...

NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A 13-year-old in Newton didn’t want to let the coronavirus stop him from officially joining the Jewish community, so he moved the centuries-old ceremony online. Instead of ...

When Dennis Fries’ father was a boy, bar mitzvah to him meant no more Wednesday evenings spent in Hebrew school. Some 20 years later, the bar mitzvah ("son of the commandment" in Hebrew) has taken a ...

Shelley Miller became a bat mitzvah in 1966. At the time, Jewish girls couldn’t read from the Torah — the first five books of the Hebrew bible — the way boys did during their coming-of-age ceremony, ...

A Columbus Orthodox rabbi has called for the abolition of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony in American Judaism on the premise that “nothing has contributed more to the adulteration of faith and the confusion ...

A 13-year-old dog is now ready for his next stage in life now that he’s had his "Bark Mitzvah." Ruth and Craig Ellenberg celebrated the milestone birthday with their beloved Havanese dog Rambo earlier ...

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 ...

Among the first women to be ordained in America, she went to Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, to preside over the rite ...

A 13-year-old dog is now ready for his next stage in life now that he’s had his “Bark Mitzvah.” Ruth and Craig Ellenberg celebrated the milestone birthday with their beloved Havanese dog Rambo earlier ...