Bat mitzva

After an Iranian missile shattered homes, Beit Shemesh residents learn to live in limbo

Over 1,000 displaced people from Beit Shemesh were relocated to several hotels across Jerusalem, where they now attempt to piece together fragments of routine amid trauma.

At the scene where an Iranian ballistic missile struck Beit Shemesh, causing extensive destruction and fatalities, March 1.
Daughters of widows celebrate their bat-mitzvah at Chabad’s annual 22 Shevat event

In Jerusalem, a Bat Mitzvah celebration honors fatherless girls – and a long-term promise

Soldiers praying at the Kotel in 2013.

'I never had a bar mitzvah,' lone soldiers from Ethiopia to celebrate at the Western Wall

An IDF orphan, wearing a beret from the Nachal Brigade, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025.

Forty-eight IDF orphans mark bnei mitzvah at Western Wall


Why did Hollywood actress America Ferrera want to convert to Judaism, have a bat mitzva?

The now 31-year-old beauty tells Late Night host Seth Meyers that in her youth, she had wanted to join the Jewish faith "for not very noble reasons."

Actress America Ferrera

The top 10 Jewish stories of 2019

These are the Jewish stories that most captured our attention in 2019.

The  top 10 Jewish  stories  of 2019

December 9, 2019: 20th century creation

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Actress Tiffany Haddish celebrates her Judaism in lavish ‘Black Mitzvah’

The daughter of an Eritrean Jew, Haddish found out relatively late in life that she was Jewish but has embraced these Jewish roots in recent years.

Rabbi Susan Silverman officiates Tiffany Haddish's bat mitzvah December 3, 2019

Tiffany Haddish opens up about Jewish identity and upcoming bat mitzvah

Unsurprisingly, “Black Mitzvah” is pretty Jewish: It opens with the comedian being carried on a chair singing “Hava Nagila.”

Tiffany Haddish in the film, "Girls Trip."

French Holocaust survivors celebrate bar, bat mitzvahs at Western Wall

‘I am doing this in memory of my family who died in the Shoah.’

Holocaust survivor Jacques Innedjian wears a tallit and tefillin as he celebrates his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.

Twelve lessons for my daughter on her bat mitzvah

Netanya, as you embark on the next stage of your journey, here is what I hope I can pack in your luggage.

MAZAL TOV, Netanya!

Girl with degenerative brain disease celebrates bat mitzvah at LA hospital

Despite being given only three years to live, Numa Beron made it to the age of 12.

BAT-MITZVA

Tiffany Haddish will be having a bat mitzvah, launch Netflix special

Haddish rose to stardom through various appearances on television sitcoms, programs and the comedic stage, as well as the hit movie 'Keanu.'

Tiffany Haddish in the film, "Girls Trip."

For my daughter on her bat mitzvah

You are the daughter of kings and queens, scholars and saints, men of letters and women of valor. The blood of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah flow through your veins.

LIEL GOLDA.