What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: The revolutionary principle that separating tithes and giving them to Kohanim is one unified mitzvah performed at the moment of ...

Let’s go to the weekly Torah portion, from the Book of ... It is usually the “ugly cousin” of the Scripture readings. In many Reform congregations, it is left unread, except when a bar or bat mitzvah ...

Burt Abrams. (Photo Courtesy of Burt Abrams) One of the most well-known Jewish traditions is the bar or bat mitzvah, when teens are given the chance to ascend to Jewish adulthood in front of their ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage when Jewish teens read from the Torah scroll in ...

Even though reading the Haftarah and Torah and giving a speech to your family and friends about how grown up you feel can be overwhelming — having the right mix of people can create ...

This all means that the last person to have a bar mitzvah in my family before my son was his great-grandfather in 1930. After 94 years, the fire of the Torah is once again being ignited.

In this 2009 Coen Brothers movie, 13-year-old Danny (Aaron Wolff) gets super-duper high on weed before his bar mitzvah and is so stoned during the service that he nearly passes out on the Torah.