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

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Holocaust survivor celebrates bar mitzvah in Israel, 80 years later

Instead of celebrating his bar mitzvah when he turned 13, he was taken to the Warsaw Ghetto with his family.

Shalom Shtamberg, a 93-year old Holocaust survivor, is lifted on a chair during celebrations marking 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.

בְּכָל זֹאת אֵינֶנִי נִפְרָד

Disc: Nevertheless, I do not depart

Disc: Nevertheless, I do not depart

WATCH: Jon Stewart crashes Jimmy Kimmel bar mitzvah interview

Somebody's feelings were hurt!

Jon Stewart

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Child victims of terrorism celebrate bnei mitzva with the Rivlins

On Monday evening they continued a 15-year tradition of Israel’s presidents by hosting victims of terrorism who were celebrating their bar and bat mitzva.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN and his wife, Nechama, (center) host victims of terrorism who were celebrating their bnei mitzva last night.

Stepping up as a man: Teen donates 800 Nikes using $25k from bar mitzvah

Texas youth also donated footware to a local orphanage and a YWCA center for women and children.

Woman lacing shoes (illustrative photo)

Why ‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah had a bar mitzvah

“I lived my life as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes Jewish kid, and I didn’t understand because she didn’t make me convert," says comedian.

Trevor Noah‏

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