Bar mitzva

Anti-Zionist Jews: The wayward sons of our generation - opinion

Some Jews seek Judaism without peoplehood; the Haggadah warns that faith and community are inseparable.

 A PRO-PALESTINIAN Jewish protester participates in a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (L) and former Providence Mayor David Cicilline (M) gather for the gathered for our annual St. Joseph’s Day celebration on March 19, 2026.

First, second Jewish mayors of Providence, Rhode Island, share a bar mitzvah

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march past King's College, one of the few colleges that have divested from companies benefiting from the Israeli war.

Hearing Sieg Heil at 76: Why you can't kill the Jew inside - opinion

Bar Mitzvah boys the day before all the excitement begins.

Iran: You are so not invited to my sons’ bar mitzvah


‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ explores love, awkwardness on the bar mitzvah circuit

It’s an unlikely vocation for a character who isn’t Jewish, especially one created and played by someone who isn’t, either. 

Bar Mitzvah boy - illustrative

Yad Vashem's Bar/Bat Mitzvah program keeps Holocaust memory alive

At Yad Vashem, concern over how the Holocaust would remain an integral part of the Jewish consciousness once there were no longer any survivors prompted the start of the twinning program.

 ARON WELLS of the UK studies Yad Vashem’s materials on the identity of the Shoah victim with whom he was twinned, Aron Gotlib.

Revamped ‘Wonder Years’ revisits bar mitzvah 33 years after classic episode

Paul Pfeiffer's bar mitzvah made Jewish television history when "The Wonder Years" devoted an episode to it in 1989.

 Mizrahi Jewish boy celebrates bar mitzvah in Israel

21 years after 'dying,' Shimon Ohana celebrates son's bar mitzvah - opinion

Shimon had a tenth of one percent chance of recovery after being shot in the Second Intifada. Today, he is alive.

 RACHEL Ohana and Avi Rivkind stand on either side of the happy couple at Shimon and Avia’s wedding.

US middle school goes virtual to kurb COVID spread from a bar mitzvah

The bar mitzvah that caused an outbreak of COVID is the the nephew of former New Jersey governer Chris Christie.

Bar Mitzvah boy - illustrative

Bahrain celebrates first Bar Mitzvah in 16 years

The ceremony was held at the House of Ten Commandments, the oldest functioning synagogue in the region.

Il en faut pour tous les goûts...

Desus and Mero get a bar mitzvah with the help of Eric Andre and a rabbi

When the duo felt the need to celebrate a bar mitzvah of sorts on TV, and they called in one of their Jewish friends to help them prepare: the wild child comedian Eric Andre.

Comedian Eric Andre

From Maine to Yeroham: One man’s journey to his grandson’s brit

For my father, 87, the brit was the moment he had been looking forward to after a cold Maine winter on the St. Croix River, filled with snow flurries and coronavirus worries.

Harold Silverman at his grandson’s brit

Chabad of Baka celebrates its Bar Mitzvah year

Chabad of Baka’s building fund prospered over the past year, bringing them close to the halfway mark of their $2.2 million goal.

THE HENDELS (center) present honorees Naftali & Joan Neufeld with a picture of the Rebbe printed on stone.

Here’s how to involve virtual guests in a hybrid bar or bat mitzvah

Fully virtual bar and bat mitzvahs are, happily, no longer a necessity in many places.

Steele Robbins as Donny in "Donny's Bar Mitzvah."