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, ...

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 ...

When Dennis Fries’ father was a boy, bar mitzvah to him meant no more Wednesday evenings spent in Hebrew school. Some 20 years later, the bar mitzvah ("son of the commandment" in Hebrew) has taken a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Liberal Jews in Israel are accusing the country’s president of discriminating against them by calling off a bar mitzvah ceremony at his residence. At the heart of the dispute is a ...

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 ...

As a photographer, I’m often a silent witness: to people’s personal celebrations, momentous national events, moments of stark beauty and even instances of intense strife. I don’t like to pray in the ...

Synagogues are expanding options beyond the bat and bar mitzvah. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to ...

Why is 83-year-old Robert Mason going to have a second ceremony so many years after having his first at a more traditional age? "Why not?" he asks. Robert Mason has a history of repeating things. He ...

(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 ...