Bar mitzva

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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.

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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


Holocaust survivor celebrates bar mitzvah on Kristallnacht anniversary

Fred Behrend had his original bar mitzvah ceremony 80 years ago in Cuba, where his family had fled from Germany before settling in the United States.

The hands of Shalom Shtamberg, a 93-year old Holocaust survivor, are seen during his bar mitzvah ceremony, a Jewish coming-of-age celebration traditionally marked by boys at the age of 13, in Haifa, Israel August 31, 2017

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A bar mitzvah is a significant celebration at any time and for every family, but for a congregation, it’s even more so when it’s the rabbi’s son whose bar mitzvah is being celebrated.

Cooper Lifshutz, grandson of Rabbi Lt.-Col. Oscar M. Lifshutz, celebrates his bar mitzvah in Jerusalem

Moshe Holtzberg, who lost parents in Mumbai attack, celebrates Bar Mitzvah

Jewish musicians sang with Moshe in a special helicopter hired to make his day extra special.

Moshe Holtzberg's Bar Mitzvah celebrations

Rabbi suffering from ALS makes cross-country trip for son’s bar mitzvah

Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, 47, writes a weekly commentary on the Torah and a blog offering marriage advice.

DINA AND Yitzi Hurwitz, pre-ALS. (Courtesy)

Fake news about Brazilian pop star’s bar mitzvah performance goes viral

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Bringing Herzl home

A salute to Chaplain Rabbi Oscar Mike Lifshutz who arranged Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl's re-burial in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl in August 1949.

Theodor Herzl leaning over the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, probably during the Sixth Zionist Conference there in 1903

Why All Bar Mitzvah Trips to Israel Look The Same And How One Company Has The Industry Scared.

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80 deaf Israeli children have bar and bat mitzvah ceremony

The bar and bat mitzvah at the Nitzanim synagogue were sponsored by the International Young Israel Movement and the Jewish Agency.

Pair of tefilin with black straps with blue kippah on white wooden background. (illustrative)

Unaffiliated youth inspired on bar/bat mitzvah trip to Israel

Unaffiliated Jewish youth were treated to a special tour of Israel to mark their bar and bat mitzvah birthdays, marking their journey into adulthood.

Bat mitzvah age girls decorate Shabbat candlestick holders during the Rabbinical Center of Europe trip to Israel, March 2019