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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 ...

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 ...

When you’re 13, the world seems very small to you. You mainly spend time in your bubble, not yet concerned with solving world hunger or keeping the peace between nations. But when I was 13, I became a ...

Adam Sandler has played a wedding singer at a bar mitzvah and sang about a bar mitzvah boy. For his next piece of mitzvah-themed piece of entertainment, he, and his family, are turning into You Are So ...

As we are approaching the 7th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Shneur Zalman Baras OBM on Rosh Chodesh Adar (Lamed Shvat), his family ...

Tiffany Haddish is set to explore her Jewish roots in her upcoming Netflix comedy special, Black Mitzvah. The comedian's new stand-up comedy special—Haddish's second for Netflix—comes amid the actor's ...

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(The Conversation) — Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since. (The Conversation) — March 18, 2022, ...