For many young Jewish girls, the bat mitzvah is a significant ... For boys, the equivalent ceremony is called a bar mitzvah ...

But I wasn’t comfortable [having a bar mitzvah], either ... As feminism progressed both outside and within Jewish communities, girls pushed to be allowed to read from the Torah and to be ...

Mazel tov to “New Girl” on their bar mitzvah…scene. On the latest episode of the Fox comedy, Schmidt (Max Greenfield) Jews it up yet again, this time crashing a bar mitzvah with Nick (Jake ...

Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremonies are significant because they are seen as the time of coming of age, when a child becomes an adult. It is traditional for the boy’s father to recite a prayer of ...