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 ...

There are few events in Jewish life as significant as a bar or bat mitzvah, the coming-of-age milestone often celebrated alongside a party for family and friends. And for such an important occasion, ...

This is part 1 in a series of articles examining the Bar and Bat Mitzvah ritual in America. Few institutions represent the American Jewish community like the bar and bat mitzvah. It would be ...

After hitting the NYC singles scene every night looking for love under all the wrong strobe lights, Jennifer still laughs when she recalls the very randy — and unorthodox — way she scored a boyfriend: ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) – More and more families planning bar and bat mitzvahs are taking the advice of Jeffrey Salkin, author of “Putting God on the Guest List,” by making sure to incorporate spiritual ...

Some parents are signing up their kids for online bar mitzvah lessons Allows teens to squeeze in tutoring via Skype Online learning lets some teachers get creative and use a variety of digital ...

My second chance was Sunday, June 5, as the only male in a group of nine adults, including my wife, Lauren, as I celebrated my adult bar mitzvah. A bar mitzvah (for a boy) or bat mitzvah (for a girl) ...

Shopping for a bar mitzvah DJ is a grueling process. You want someone who can successfully pull off the Cha-Cha-Slide, cajole your 81-year-old great uncle Mort onto the dance floor, give out ...

Forty-five years after his bar mitzvah, Edward L. Moskowitz could not find the photos. They were lost in his garage, in a box, among shelves of such boxes, and were his only remaining evidence of a ...

Loren Evans (left) grasps the Torah during his bar mitzvah at Breed Street Shul. Photos by Lynn Levitt. This was a day that Loren Evans’ family thought they would never see. In a heartwarming ceremony ...

For some, it's 13 going on $5 million for the Jewish rite of passage as industry families "outdo one another … and the Grammys and the Emmys." By Carson Griffith Bar mitzvahs in Hollywood aren’t just ...