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 ...

Q: I am a 12-year-old girl in seventh grade. I was recently invited to a friend’s bar mitzvah. I have never been to a bar mitzvah or a bat mitzvah, and I am not Jewish. I asked my dad if I ...

My husband and I recently attended the Bat Mitzvah of a dear friend’s daughter. Our daughters are all adults, but our friend from college days married a younger woman, and so his oldest child is ...

"I don't want a bat mitzvah," she told her parents. "It's just for you and your relatives. You don't even need me there. So why don't you just throw your own party?" ...

Eisenstein did not have an aliyah again until five months before the bat mitzvah of her daughter Miriam many years later, and Eisenstein had a second bat mitzvah in 1992, four years before her death.

Bat Mitzvah of Rose Lebow Electric Lodge, Venice, CA; Photo courtesy of Open Temple Midway through Lila Duke’s bat mitzvah ceremony, her family’s cat made an appearance. Minnie’s ...

The bat mitzvah came shortly after Kaplan founded SAJ. Judy did not read from the Torah, but read biblical passages from a book after the Torah service had concluded.

Everyone has their bat mitzvah or whatever, but not everyone has had a Zoom bat mitzvah,” Lila said in a phone interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a few days after the rite.

Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler as a couple with a 13-year-old in “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” Blowout receptions are one trope of the genre.

It was a little crowded on the bimah at Seven Acres chapel. But not to the four women — three in wheelchairs and one using a walker — who smiled proudly from the platform at family and friends ...