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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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Two years before my bat mitzvah, I dressed up as a bar mitzvah boy. It was the holiday of Purim, when costumed revelers celebrate biblical Esther’s derring-do. I wore a red blouse with an oversized ...

When 12-year-old Batya Sperling-Milner stood before her community at her bat mitzvah, a key coming-of-age ritual for Jews, she read from the Torah, just like any other Jewish kid. At the same time, ...

Sunny Sandler starred in her own real-life bat mitzvah just last year, making her lead role in dad Adam Sandler’s new Netflix comedy “You Are So Not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah” that much sweeter. The ...

We know the word. But just because we know what it is called doesn’t always mean we know, more deeply, what it is. There are worlds to unpack in that familiar term. The physicist Richard Feynman (1918 ...

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 ...