Question: When should a bar mitzvah boy be corrected during leining? Answer by Rabbi Mendel Prescott, Rosh Yeshiva of Machon Smicha.

In the new Austrian film “Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah,” Jewish party documenter Andre describes the addictive nature of his video extravaganzas. “There are people in Israel with relatives who collect my films ...

The Jewish ritual of bar mitzvah. which marks a 13-year-old young man’s assumption of religious and legal obligations under Jewish law. Israel_photo_gallery, CC BY-ND It is a common scene on many a ...

Last Shabbat, our leadership at Temple Akiba presented me with this awesome certificate. I had been keeping records of all the B’nei Mitzvah during my tenure at Temple Akiba since 2006. While ...

Last week, you would have hardly known that there were peace talks happening in Jerusalem. That wasn’t the biggest Jewish news. No, that prize goes to the viral Sam Horowitz bar mitzvah dance video. I ...

I begin by extending warm wishes to those readers currently celebrating their most solemn and important religious holidays; to Christians I wish a blessed Easter, and to Muslims a Ramadan kareem and ...

Thirty years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah, American style, and working on ways to improve it. Here was my basic point: American Jews ...

Imagine this: The sun rises over the ancient stones of Jerusalem, casting a golden glow on the Western Wall. Your son, wrapped in a family tallit for the first time, nervously clears his throat. As ...

I was not supposed to like Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” Here is why. Some 30 years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah ...