The story begins in Rostov, in southern Russia. Irina, the family’s grandmother, made aliyah from there with her daughter ...

Many Jewish women now in their 80s and 90s did not get a chance to have a bat mitzvah. The Arbor at Lake Worth set out to change that.

Another element of the 83-year-old bar mitzvah is that it offers the person a chance to give a true, long-term perspective on a given portion. While 13-year-olds often have enlightening thoughts on ...

12-year-old Avital "Tali" David celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at Temple Emanuel in Gastonia. The Bat Mitzvah ceremony marks a girl's transition to adulthood in Judaism. Tali spent months preparing for ...

At my bar mitzvah, my mother of blessed memory, Rachel Baum, asked that I read a poem from the bimah before Mourner’s Kaddish. The poem, “At My Bar Mitzvah and His,” was written by Rabbi ...

Recently, the congregation recruited its 200th Torah reader. Gabi (Gabriel) Natenshon received that honor during the bar mitzvah of his brother, Micah. The program also set a new community standard: ...

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 ...

Team Torah member readings are not just limited to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement which begins October 11), but members can read at services throughout the year.

There are adult classes in trope (the Torah's musical notation) and outreach to parents and kids years before the bar or bat mitzvah. Emblematic of Beth El's success in motivating what is a time ...

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Daniel Sheinbein Bar Mitzvah Staff July 25, 2024 Lifecycle Comments Off On Saturday, July 27, 2024 (21 Tammuz 5784), Daniel Sheinbein will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah with Adventure ...