It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade ...

There are a variety of reasons why someone may not have a mitzvah when they’re young: the financial pressures of a blow-out party; the relative rarity of bat mitzvahs until the 1970s ...

Here is a guide to planning a bar/bat mitzvah from a parent who has been there. Plus, what guests attending need to know.

Madonna is mom to Lourdes, 27, Rocco, 24, David, 18, Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 12. The singer honored her ...

Jewish girl Me-Me introduces us to the Bat Mitzvah ceremony as she prepares to become a ‘Daughter of the Law’, learning to pray and to read the Torah in public. Me-Me belongs to the Reformed ...

In my experience, many modern-day teens who gather for this ceremony have no idea what the word bar mitzvah means, nor how the ceremony they have come to observe evolved. The roots of the bar ...

We don’t get to see each other too much.” In Judaism, bar and bat mitzvahs are widely considered a teenage rite of passage, signaling a grown-up step forward into the religious community.

The 20th century also witnessed the spread of a parallel ceremony for girls, known as the bat mitzvah, meaning “daughter of the commandments.” In lands where Jewish life was changing rapidly ...

Layla Jules England was called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on May 4 at Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen. She is a... Tessa Rose Steinberg was called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on April 6 at ...