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

Jacob Harris Cohen will become a bar mitzvah Saturday morning, Dec. 13, at Park Synagogue. Jacob is the son of Rachel and ...

This is the Forward’s coverage of b’nai mitzvah (also called bat mitzvahs for girls and bar mitzvahs for boys), Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies typically done at age 13. The world’s oldest man, ...

In The Season, Helen Garner considers the zeal and irrationality of fandom and her country’s favorite pastime, Australian rules football. The Sydney Swans in action. My niece and nephew, who are not ...

As people shaped by centuries of exclusion, we cannot stand by while our own cities build barriers via zoning codes and ...

Rich Harwood honored with the Marlon Meyer Award for Man of the Year, celebrating his dedication to Congregation Tifereth Israel.

Letters to the editor from the readers of J. The Jewish News of Northern California for the week of Nov. 28. 2025.

A senator since 2013, Booker has been called the “the Senate’s most Jewish non-Jew.” On Nov. 29, he married Alexis Lewis, a ...

Booker and Alexis Lewis married in a courthouse ceremony on Nov. 24. On Saturday the couple held a private interfaith wedding ...

Israel advocacy, ties the knot with Alexis Lewis in an interfaith ceremony that featured a rabbi and Jewish rituals ...

A Sept. 7 gala event, attended by 300 people at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, raised $1.3 million for Chabad’s ...