In a scary and uncertain world, giving your child the gift of a bar or bat mitzvah isn’t just about honoring tradition. It’s about offering connection, purpose and a path forward.

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 ...

The disgraced financier's birthday book reveals his Jewish name, Yudel, and shows him squeezing an accordion at a bar mitzvah ...

You can “try this at home,” as they say — at least, if you someday have a child who hasn’t been born yet. But Jonathan ...

This practice is considered a mitzvah (commandment) for Jewish men starting at their Bar Mitzvah (age 13). A Bar Mitzvah is a ...

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah on Netflix is a funny and accurate representation of modern Jewish culture and the chaos surrounding a Bat Mitzvah. The characters in the movie are ...

A young Jewish boy celebrates his Bar Mitzvah with Colel Chabad at the Western Wall. In a sign of optimism and hope on an otherwise challenging day for Israeli society amidst the ongoing protests and ...

(New York Jewish Week) – When Michael Witkes arrived at his bar mitzvah party, he knew he couldn’t enter to a musical theater song, his preferred genre, because he was already being bullied ...

Adam Sandler's "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah" hits so hard that you're transported back to your own Jewish coming-of-age experience.

Is it odd that I didn’t reach back into my Jewish past as I wrote the book? That I dreamed up a bat mitzvah for an imaginary 12-year-old without really unpacking my own? Maybe it is, but the truth is ...

The Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration, Judaism's rite of passage, could be delayed until after the traditional age of 13 in an attempt to keep Jews active in the religion later in life.