The Jewish ritual of bar mitzvah. which marks a 13-year-old young man’s assumption of religious and legal obligations under Jewish law. Israel_photo_gallery, CC BY-ND It is a common scene on many a ...

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, ...

Anything and everything goes these days for bar and bat mitzvah parties, planners say. The common thread is creating an event that’s personalized, unique and memorable. Micah Topche’s family of Center ...

I begin by extending warm wishes to those readers currently celebrating their most solemn and important religious holidays; to Christians I wish a blessed Easter, and to Muslims a Ramadan kareem and ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JTA) — Like many Jewish ...

Yael Palmon writes for the Features team at Collider. She is a pop culture enthusiast who has spent arguably too much time in front of the TV over the years, and has strong opinions about everything – ...

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

(WALTHAM, MASS.) 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 ...