Celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah is a unique and special time in the life of a child, family and community. ...

As girls have become the educational equals of boys in Orthodox Judaism, rabbis need to explore halakhah to create a normative bat mitzvah ceremony.

You may have noticed we’ve had a few B’nai Mitzvah-related posts lately.  We are at the start of celebrating our ...

I had planned to write about my eldest son’s bar mitzvah this weekend. I had planned to reflect upon some ...

The women's prayer service is becoming the choice venue for a bat mitzvah in Orthodox synagogues that value egalitarianism and learning.

The other day, I wrote about vomiting at my bar mitzvah party. Not my finest hour.Since then, I’ve been thinking ...

It was dry inside the Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood. The audience for the 22nd Washington Jewish Film ...

Picture this: a really mean kid.A kid who spends each day at school calling others names, like fat and loser. ...

In order to help him feel more comfortable at bar/bat mitzvah parties, Myq Kaplan's mom signed him up for dance classes.

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...