Jewish families across South Florida who aren’t affiliated with a synagogue have the opportunity to give their children a traditional bar or bat mitzvah through Temple Beth El of Hollywood’s ...

Everything’s going digital. Even bar mitzvah preparation. Some tech-savvy parents are signing up their kids for a more modern brand of bar mitzvah lessons, rather than schlepping them to the synagogue ...

For many people, their relationship with Judaism ends after their bar or bat mitzvah. After going through this coming of age ceremony, they become less and less engaged and eventually, unaffiliated ...

Do you have a child or grandchild who is looking for a good bar or bat mitzvah project to work on? The National Council of Jewish Women – Palm Beach County Section has a new oral history program where ...

BETHEL >> As the date nears for Noah Goldstein’s Bar Mitzvah, the Garnet Valley Middle School student is not only working on his studies for the Judaic rite of passage, but also on raising money to ...

Rebecca Schwartz was featured in the Forward’s Giving section three years ago, around the time of her bat mitzvah. Back then, she was one of the first to participate in Give a Mitzvah — Do a Mitzvah, ...

A Columbus Orthodox rabbi has called for the abolition of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony in American Judaism on the premise that “nothing has contributed more to the adulteration of faith and the confusion ...

During middle school, Yoni Kollin took part in “Shevet,” a Jewish teen group in Los Angeles for boys post-bar mitzvah. The program, facilitated by Moving Traditions, a Jewish organization that ...