For many people, their relationship with Judaism ends after their bar or bat mitzvah. After going through this coming of age ceremony, they become less and less engaged and eventually, unaffiliated ...
Next month I will be marking my 83rd birthday and the 70th anniversary of my bar mitzvah, the ceremony in Judaism marking a young person’s passage to adulthood. In recent times, some Jewish men of my ...
A Columbus Orthodox rabbi has called for the abolition of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony in American Judaism on the premise that “nothing has contributed more to the adulteration of faith and the confusion ...
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 ...
Religion News Service: Is 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' good for the Jews — or Judaism?
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 ...
Is 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' good for the Jews — or Judaism?
Jewish Journal: Providing the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Experience for the Unaffiliated
Illinois Times: Bar and bat mitzvah – marking the passage to adulthood
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Orthodox Rabbi Calls for Abolition of Bar Mitzvah Ceremony
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?
(JTA) – It seems hard to believe, but there’s never been a truly great bar/bat mitzvah movie — mostly because there just haven’t been that many bar/bat mitzvah movies, period. But after that, things ...