Bar mitzva

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Welcoming guests.
Bar Mitzvah in Israel.

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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


Son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed spies, celebrates bar mitzva

Robert Meeropol, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, celebrated a belated bar mitzva at age 71.

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Our bar mitzvah project in the Mumbai slums

Yoni Levy with the schoolchildren proudly showing off their newly found juggling skills with their own handmade juggling balls

This teen had a gender neutral b’nei mitzvah

As transgender and gender nonconforming people gain more acceptance, synagogues are having to think about how to welcome those with a diverse set of gender identities.

Torah scroll

VP Pence’s message to a Jerusalem bar mitzvah boy

“Your family and loved ones have given you a strong foundation to begin your passage into Jewish adulthood, and we know they are very proud of you for reaching this milestone,” he wrote.

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks to a crowd in Florida in August. Pence will be visiting Israel and its neighbors on January 20-23

Northern or southern hemisphere?

The makings of a meaningful simha become more complex when families are stretched around the globe.

People release balloons as they celebrate a bar mitzva near the Western Wall

Seven Palestinians arrested in connection with attack on Jewish children

At least 30 Palestinian men surrounded the children and their parent escorts, who were on a hike in honor of one of the boy’s bar mitzvah, and started throwing rocks.

Palestinian arrested near Gaza border

Battle of the diamond kippot

Designers create extravagant yarmulkes - with ridiculous price tags.

$167,000 kippah

Watch: Israeli Life in Docs

Every week dostories365 in collaboration with 'The Jerusalem Post' will bring you slices of Israeli life. This week, a story about a family preparing for a bar mitzva ceremony.

Screen capture from 'Thirteen' by 365dostories

My 13-year-old hero

Imagine if children throughout Israel spent the year leading up to their bar and bat mitzvas raising funds to bring electricity and water to children in Africa.

Eytan and his mother, Liza, with the solar panels prior to their installation

At Western Wall, Holocaust survivors finally celebrate their b'nei mitzva

45 men and women from the former Soviet Union belatedly mark the Jewish milestone in Jerusalem.

Holocaust survivors celebrate their bnei mitzvot at the Western Wall, November 2017