There’s a lot to do as a child prepares for a bar or bat mitzvah — from learning the ritual itself to finalizing details of ...

When it comes to planning a b’nai mitzvah, mainly families find themselves navigating a delicate balance: honoring Jewish ...

As Jews, we celebrate adulthood at age 12 or 13. And while that may have once felt like adulthood, in the modern world, tweens are not considered grown-ups. Instead, b’nai mitzvah mark the beginning ...

They say a boy’s best friend is his mother. For director Nathan Silver, she’s also his muse. The comedy is loosely inspired by Cindy’s experience as a culturally Jewish woman, who at 68, enrolled at ...

The 2005 young-adult novel “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” by Fiona Rosenbloom, a pen name of Amanda Stern, recounts the falling-out of two best friends, Stacy Friedman and Lydia Katz, ...