Bat Mitzvah

Drake’s recent SNL skit (see below), perhaps unwittingly but then again perhaps not, highlighted how a bar or bat mitzvah ...

I’ve done everything “right”: given my children Jewish education, sent them to Jewish camps, spent time with them in Israel ...

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

In the fortunate cases it is the grandparents, often it is the parents, and sometimes even a sibling who stands ...

Dearest Students,Early on in the academic year (and the Jewish New Year!), I thought it would be a poignant time ...

According to the National Jewish Population Survey, there are approximately 1.5 million non-Jews helping to raise Jewish families in the ...

I’m a big fan of Julie Weiner’s blog at The Jewish Week.  It’s one of those blogs that I read ...

We grew up with my mother’s special brand of religion: Eccentric Judaism. My two older brothers and I were allowed ...

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

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