March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys ...

Ryla Breeze Marshall will become a bat mitzvah in the afternoon on May 30 at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation. She is the daughter of Tera Madow and Serge Marshall, the sister ...

Stars including Alicia Silverstone, Tiffany Haddish and the Haim sisters celebrated their Judaism as teens and continue their appreciation today Alicia Silverstone ...

We know the word. But just because we know what it is called doesn’t always mean we know, more deeply, what it is. There are worlds to unpack in that familiar term. The physicist Richard Feynman (1918 ...

March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...

For 12-year-old Nomi Kline Solmsen, preparing for her upcoming bat mitzvah is a family affair. Her grandfather, a rabbi, is helping her learn to chant the words from the Torah. Her aunt, also a ...

The ceremony is seen as the moment a Jewish boy becomes a man and is usually marked with a big party A BAR mitzvah is a right of passage for Jewish boys. Here’s the lowdown on the ancient coming of ...

(The Conversation) — Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since. (The Conversation) — March 18, 2022, ...