Bar mitzva

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Bar Mitzvah in Israel.

 Bar Mitzvah in Israel: Why more families are choosing Israel for their Bar Mitzvah celebrations

Kemran Hekmati, pictured in a family photo. Iran charged the 70-year-old Jewish Iranian-American for traveling to Israel.

Iran arrests Iranian-American Jew for visiting Israel - NYT

An IDF orphan, wearing a beret from the Nachal Brigade, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025.

Forty-eight IDF orphans mark bnei mitzvah at Western Wall


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

Chabad of Baka celebrates its Bar Mitzvah year

Chabad of Baka’s building fund prospered over the past year, bringing them close to the halfway mark of their $2.2 million goal.

THE HENDELS (center) present honorees Naftali & Joan Neufeld with a picture of the Rebbe printed on stone.

Here’s how to involve virtual guests in a hybrid bar or bat mitzvah

Fully virtual bar and bat mitzvahs are, happily, no longer a necessity in many places.

Steele Robbins as Donny in "Donny's Bar Mitzvah."

Parashat Bamidbar: Four lessons for one's journey into Jewish adulthood

The Book of Numbers is not primarily one of danger and warning, but rather one of promise and preparation, albeit seasoned with a healthy dose of realism.

‘The Grapes of Canaan’ painted circa 1896-1902 by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, The Jewish Museum, New York.

Zoom-mitzvahs moving the bar on tradition - comment

One year ago, no one had ever heard of a Zoom bar or bat mitzvah.

DANIEL BREGMAN’S bar mitzvah on Zoom: There were all these people we could invite – Israeli friends and family in England and France who would have never been able to come.

74 bar and bat mitzvahs for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth held over Zoom

“2020 has been a particularly difficult year for the deaf and hearing-impaired population," said the International Young Israel Movement director.

Deaf and hard of hearing students celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs over Zoom amid coronavirus pandemic.

Yigal Amir's request to attend son's bar mitzvah denied

Amir, the man convicted of assassinating former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has never been granted a furlough during his 25 years of incarceration.

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90-year-old dies of COVID-19 while preparing for 2nd adult bat mitzvah

Her shiva was conducted over Zoom, with family and friends from as far afield as Canada, Brazil and Israel sharing stories about Barat’s colorful and friendly spirit.

Visitors release balloons as they begin celebrating a bar mitzva near the Western Wall in Jerusalem in February