In 1957 Judy Stein was the first girl to have a Shabbat morning bat mitzvah in San Francisco. It was not without controversy.

Chabad House Palm Beach celebrated three women who completed bat mitzvahs later in life with a ceremony at The Colony Hotel.

I’m sitting at the dining room table doing my Spanish homework while my mother sits across from me, tackling a daunting task: ...

As a middle child, I often get hand-me-downs. When I was younger, I didn’t really care that I received yearly batches of clothes from my sister Elisabeth, simply because I didn’t know any other way to ...

Helene Feldstein, 92, grew up immersed in Judaism, with a grandfather who was a rabbi and a cantor. Still, she had never dreamed of getting a bat mitzvah. “Seventy-five years ago, there was no thought ...

When 12-year-old Sheryl Milstein’s parents gave her the choice between having a Bat Mitzvah after finishing Hebrew school and spending the summer in California, she picked the latter. Now, 56 years ...

New York City content creator Ilana Wiles tells PEOPLE that planning a Bat Mitzvah is crazy expensive, even when you are ...

They say a boy’s best friend is his mother. For director Nathan Silver, she’s also his muse. The comedy is loosely inspired by Cindy’s experience as a culturally Jewish woman, who at 68, enrolled at ...