Rabbi Nicole Guzik celebrated her daughter’s bat mitzvah as the Los Angeles fires obliterated local neighborhoods and found ...

Getting a child ready for their b’nai mitzvah requires intensive preparations. For parents of children with disabilities or ...

Dylan Elizabeth Rocker will become a bat mitzvah Saturday afternoon, Feb. 8 at Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood. Dylan is ...

The bat mitzvah is a coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish girls—one that celebrates their transition into adulthood. These are ...

More than 250 congregants and others spent Sunday giving back to the community for the annual "Mitzvah Day" project.

Both my husband and I had mitzvah celebrations of our own. We knew we wanted to celebrate our children during this milestone in their Jewish journeys, but we struggled to determine how because we ...

Tracy Frank and her 13-year-old son, Liam, peered inside. It was a makeshift dress rehearsal for what will be a makeshift bar mitzvah: Or Ami, a Reform synagogue in Calabasas, lost power this week ...

Members of the Chabad community in Malibu, an upscale seaside town down the mountain from Topanga that has been heavily damaged by the fires, found themselves needing to hold a bar mitzvah ...

Forty-eight years ago this week, on a frigid winter evening in the red rotunda of Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue, I sat nervously in an ornate chair behind the rabbi’s podium, clasping my speech ...

“I never expected to be in Israel; I expected my bar mitzvah to be in Indonesia,” said bar mitzvah boy Levi Yitzhak Baruch. “It’s like a dream.” It was Levi’s first time in Israe ...

Benjamin Lee Noonan will become a bar mitzvah on Feb. 8, 2025, at Temple Kol Ami. He is the son of Jenny and Chad Noonan of Phoenix. Benjamin’s grandparents are Denton Simmons and the late Denise ...

Amiella Yanklowitz will become a bat mitzvah on Feb. 21, 2025. She is the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Shmuly and Shoshana ...