Bar mitzva

'Returning': Exploring assimilation and the search for Jewish belonging - review

A multigenerational story of assimilation and the search for Jewish belonging.

Mississippi River steamboats at New Orleans, 1853.
Bar mitzvah at the Kotel, May 18, 2026.

Orphans who lost parents during October 7 war celebrate joint Kotel bar mitzvah

 A PRO-PALESTINIAN Jewish protester participates in a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City.

Anti-Zionist Jews: The wayward sons of our generation - opinion

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (L) and former Providence Mayor David Cicilline (M) gather for the gathered for our annual St. Joseph’s Day celebration on March 19, 2026.

First, second Jewish mayors of Providence, Rhode Island, share a bar mitzvah


Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?

'Cha Cha Real Smooth', a low-key charmer from 25-year-old writer-director-star Cooper Raiff that opens Friday in theaters and on Apple TV+.

 Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in "Cha Cha Real Smooth."

Bieber, Beckham, Kim Kardashian to travel to Galilee - report

Beckham and Bieber are reportedly making the trip to attend the Bar Mitzvah of the son of businessman Shaul Nakash at the Sea of Galilee.

David Beckham

‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ explores love, awkwardness on the bar mitzvah circuit

It’s an unlikely vocation for a character who isn’t Jewish, especially one created and played by someone who isn’t, either. 

Bar Mitzvah boy - illustrative

Yad Vashem's Bar/Bat Mitzvah program keeps Holocaust memory alive

At Yad Vashem, concern over how the Holocaust would remain an integral part of the Jewish consciousness once there were no longer any survivors prompted the start of the twinning program.

 ARON WELLS of the UK studies Yad Vashem’s materials on the identity of the Shoah victim with whom he was twinned, Aron Gotlib.

Revamped ‘Wonder Years’ revisits bar mitzvah 33 years after classic episode

Paul Pfeiffer's bar mitzvah made Jewish television history when "The Wonder Years" devoted an episode to it in 1989.

 Mizrahi Jewish boy celebrates bar mitzvah in Israel

21 years after 'dying,' Shimon Ohana celebrates son's bar mitzvah - opinion

Shimon had a tenth of one percent chance of recovery after being shot in the Second Intifada. Today, he is alive.

 RACHEL Ohana and Avi Rivkind stand on either side of the happy couple at Shimon and Avia’s wedding.

US middle school goes virtual to kurb COVID spread from a bar mitzvah

The bar mitzvah that caused an outbreak of COVID is the the nephew of former New Jersey governer Chris Christie.

Bar Mitzvah boy - illustrative

Bahrain celebrates first Bar Mitzvah in 16 years

The ceremony was held at the House of Ten Commandments, the oldest functioning synagogue in the region.

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Desus and Mero get a bar mitzvah with the help of Eric Andre and a rabbi

When the duo felt the need to celebrate a bar mitzvah of sorts on TV, and they called in one of their Jewish friends to help them prepare: the wild child comedian Eric Andre.

Comedian Eric Andre

From Maine to Yeroham: One man’s journey to his grandson’s brit

For my father, 87, the brit was the moment he had been looking forward to after a cold Maine winter on the St. Croix River, filled with snow flurries and coronavirus worries.

Harold Silverman at his grandson’s brit