Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

This is part 1 in a series of articles examining the Bar and Bat Mitzvah ritual in America. Few institutions represent the American Jewish community like the bar and bat mitzvah. It would be ...

AT Eli Kapsack’s bar mitzvah, he chanted in the ancient tones of the Hebrew Bible about a sorcerer named Balaam, the angel of the Lord descending to earth and a talking donkey who tries to clue her ...

My second chance was Sunday, June 5, as the only male in a group of nine adults, including my wife, Lauren, as I celebrated my adult bar mitzvah. A bar mitzvah (for a boy) or bat mitzvah (for a girl) ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) – More and more families planning bar and bat mitzvahs are taking the advice of Jeffrey Salkin, author of “Putting God on the Guest List,” by making sure to incorporate spiritual ...

Forty-five years after his bar mitzvah, Edward L. Moskowitz could not find the photos. They were lost in his garage, in a box, among shelves of such boxes, and were his only remaining evidence of a ...

Shopping for a bar mitzvah DJ is a grueling process. You want someone who can successfully pull off the Cha-Cha-Slide, cajole your 81-year-old great uncle Mort onto the dance floor, give out ...

After decades of hardship and self-discovery, an 83-year-old fulfills a lifelong dream and finds a deeper connection to his ...

July 09, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - SoHo63, a Downtown Chandler event venue, has expanded its service offerings to include ...

Over the years I’ve attended several bar mitzvahs — most of them at the movies. Not being Jewish, I’ve only attended one actual bar mitzvah — which took place during the Nixon era — and the only ...

The world’s oldest man, Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, celebrated his bar mitzvah this weekend – 100 years late. Born in Poland in 1903, Kristal studied Hebrew and Jewish law as a youngster. But ...