I wore a white eyelet dress for my 1971 bat mitzvah. My mom bought it at a discount shop on ...

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.

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

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

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. ...

I run a pretty rockin’ Bar (or Bat) Mitzvah service.  I’ve officiated at several hundred of these events. I’ve been ...