The Jewish ritual of bar mitzvah. which marks a 13-year-old young man’s assumption of religious and legal obligations under Jewish law. Israel_photo_gallery, CC BY-ND It is a common scene on many a ...

We humans are resistant to change. It unsettles us. Causes us discomfort. And anxiety. And yet, as first articulated by the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, change is the only constant. Whether or not ...

In the new Austrian film “Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah,” acclaimed filmmaker Ruth Beckermann portrays in nuanced fashion what four Viennese families have to say about Jewishness, adulthood, identity, gender, ...

The Mitzvah that Jews have to dwell in the Sukkah as their permanent abode during the festival of Sukkot greatly reveals to us one of the most complex issues in Jewish law; i.e. the distinction in the ...

The ceremony is seen as the moment a Jewish boy becomes a man and is usually marked with a big party A BAR mitzvah is a right of passage for Jewish boys. Here’s the lowdown on the ancient coming of ...

Our enemies constantly declare that they want to destroy us in the cruelest way possible, yet many of us have not internalized this. This is how we accepted the Oslo Accords, the withdrawal from Gush ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — In 3 1/2 all-too-brief years, I’ll be sitting in a synagogue pew watching my oldest son become a bar mitzvah. This milestone event will mean several things. It will mean that my ...

Many 11 and 12-year-olds dread going to Hebrew school because they find it boring and cannot connect it to their future. Perhaps they are offered a party or gifts, or they are doing it to appease ...

The coronavirus crisis meant Jake Gordon couldn’t have the Bar-Mitzvah he was hoping for. But with the help of technology, he and his family made it a significant event anyway. As he chants his Torah ...

It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls, a few not Jewish at all, gather in synagogues and temples ...