You guys are always asking me for fresh new ideas for birthday cakes, ... I Thought Using Savings For A Bar Mitzvah Instead Of College Was A Mistake. Here's What I Got Wrong.

In 1947, Ron Eliran’s 13th birthday in the British Mandate for Palestine was canceled when authorities called a curfew. Now, 77 years later, he has officially become a man.

We congratulate him on becoming a bar mitzvah–again. We eat, talk, blow out the candles on the birthday cake and talk some more, until it is time to call it a night.

Most religions have their coming-of-age celebrations in which children enter adolescence and adulthood. In the Jewish faith, this is called a bar and bat mitzvah, and it is a joyous event in which ...

As a rite of passage, the bar/bat mitzvah teaches the young person skills necessary to participate in and lead our religious rituals and assures us elders that our faith tradition will be carried on.

My sister-in-law Darby is the queen of the mitzvah. Sick friend? Soup delivered! Relative hits a rough patch? Thoughtful card sent. Niece moves into her own place? “Apartment-warming” gift shipped.

Which leads me to an observation about movies that feature bar/bat mitzvah. The kid always rebels against the peripheral, materialistic aspects of the celebration, and decides they don’t want to ...

Ahead of ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bar Mitzvah’ streaming on Netflix, we ranked the best bar and bat mitzvahs in movies and TV, from ‘Hey Arnold’ to ‘A Serious Man.’ ...

KOCHI: After nearly three decades, Kochi will serve as the venue for Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish religious ritual commemorating the religious adulthood of a boy. In f ...