Bar mitzva

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

Some Jews seek Judaism without peoplehood; the Haggadah warns that faith and community are inseparable.

 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.
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

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march past King's College, one of the few colleges that have divested from companies benefiting from the Israeli war.

Hearing Sieg Heil at 76: Why you can't kill the Jew inside - opinion

Bar Mitzvah boys the day before all the excitement begins.

Iran: You are so not invited to my sons’ bar mitzvah


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

Alan Parsons celebrates bar mitzva of bass player's son in Jerusalem

Alan Parson has engaged in a longstanding feud with ex-Floyd member Roger Waters over his repeated performances in Israel.

Alan Parsons embraces 13-year-old Tal Erez outside the Yemin Moshe synagogue this week at his bar mitzva

WATCH: IDF orphans celebrate Bar Mitzva at the Western Wall

On the threshold of adulthood Bar and bat Mitzva event for IDF orphans demonstrates bright future ahead, despite suffering great loss.

President Reuven Rivlin hosts IDF orphans marking their bar-mitzva

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