Two years before my bat mitzvah, I dressed up as a bar mitzvah boy. It was the holiday of Purim, when costumed revelers celebrate biblical Esther’s derring-do. I wore a red blouse with an oversized ...

March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...

For some, it's 13 going on $5 million for the Jewish rite of passage as industry families "outdo one another … and the Grammys and the Emmys." By Carson Griffith Bar mitzvahs in Hollywood aren’t just ...

Why have a second Bar Mitzvah at the age of 83?  Psalm 90:10 reads, “The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if we ...

On March 18, 1922, the first bat mitzvah was held. A 12-year-old girl named Judith Kaplan Eisenstein became the first American girl to enjoy that rite of passage. Since then, nearly one million girls ...

When the world shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic and we were forced to have my twins’ b’nai mitzvah on Zoom, it ended up being a blessing in disguise. Truly, I believe that we would not have ...

A century ago, Jewish American girls gained the right to come of age ritually as their male counterparts do: with sheer terror delivering speeches and chanting ...

For 12-year-old Nomi Kline Solmsen, preparing for her upcoming bat mitzvah is a family affair. Her grandfather, a rabbi, is helping her learn to chant the words from the Torah. Her aunt, also a ...

Mazel Tov is getting Mazel Tough-er for some families. In the final episodes of “And Just Like That” on HBO Max, Charlotte York-Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis) helped her nonbinary child, Rock, prepare ...

Too bad the wacky ’90s throwback having a New York theatrical release this week lacks the heart of the Judd Apatow style of comedy. (JTA) — There’s never been a great, definitive American movie about ...

(The Conversation) — Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since. (The Conversation) — March 18, 2022, ...

Tsvi Reiter, Yvonne Reiter and Hei Le participate in Yvonne’s bat mitzvah ceremony, which was performed over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lindsey Wasson/Getty Images News via Getty Images March ...