When you’re thirteen years old, there are few things in the world that matter more than being thirteen. Netflix’s recent coming-of-age comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” released Aug.

Open your heart and turn off your logic meter and you‘re going to enjoy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” You don’t have to be Jewish — or 13 years old — to appreciate this warmly wacky ...

Sunny Sandler steals the show in a contemporary take on "Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging" with a Jewish coming-of-age twist. Adam Sandler long ago perfected the art of working with his friends ...

Adam Sandler’s latest movie “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” is a family affair, starring the 56-year-old’s daughters Sunny, 14, and Sadie, 17, as well as wife Jackie, 48. Streaming now on ...

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

There are few events in Jewish life as significant as a bar or bat mitzvah, the coming-of-age milestone often celebrated alongside a party for family and friends. And for such an important occasion, ...

They say a boy’s best friend is his mother. For director Nathan Silver, she’s also his muse. The comedy is loosely inspired by Cindy’s experience as a culturally Jewish woman, who at 68, enrolled at ...

I was not supposed to like Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” Here is why. Some 30 years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah ...

It has been 90 years since Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan had his eldest daughter, Judith, stand before his congregation and read part of the week’s Torah portion in Hebrew and in English — making her the ...

"I’ve been working with kids a majority of my life," she says. "I (worked at) bar mitzvahs for 11 years. I worked at a youth center where I coordinated activities, and took the kids on field trips.

For 12-year-old Nomi Kline Solmsen, preparing for her upcoming bat mitzvah is a family affair. Her grandfather, a rabbi, is helping her learn to chant the words from the Torah. Her aunt, also a ...

March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...