Eight Bar Mitzvah boys stood side by side at the Kosel, celebrating their acceptance of mitzvos at the site from which ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A bar mitzvah is arguably one of the most important events in Jewish man's life. At age 13, a boy is ...

About a year before Caleb’s bar mitzvah, he and his parents met with Temple Emanu El Rabbi Matt Cohen to try to figure out the right project for him. “Typically, students will come up with a mitzvah ...

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, ...

Doug Emhoff has often spoken of the brown velour suit he wore to his 1977 bar mitzvah. On calls with Jewish donors, the three-piece fashion statement from the days of disco has become mythologized, ...

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 ...

When the time was right, chronologically, and in the right and proper timeline in the life of a Jewish boy, Andrew Barth Feldman had his bar mitzvah. Now, only a handful of years later, Andrew Barth ...

Many Jewish teens will set aside a portion of their bar and bat mitzvah loot for charitable contributions in the way of planting trees in Israel and saving the whales, but Saturday night’s party ...

(JTA) – The video taken at the mixed-gender prayer space at Israel’s Western Wall is brief, but the incident it captured has left a lasting impact. A group of Jews are celebrating a bar mitzvah at the ...