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: ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Among the first women to be ordained in America, she went to Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, to preside over the rite ...

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) ...

When Leibel Lazaroff, in the hospital after being injured in the Bondi Chanukah Massacre, wanted to light the Menorah, a ...

"GMA’ Goes Behind the Scenes of James Franco’s Bar Mitzvah — -- Actor James Franco has officially become a man, celebrating his adulthood at his huge bar mitzvah bash in Hollywood Saturday.

When a Sydney mum invited her son’s entire school year to his bar mitzvah at the Bondi Pavilion, she figured it’d be a great ...

World War II broke out before he could celebrate the milestone. A month before Samuel Heider was to be bar mitzvahed, a rite of passage for every Jewish teen, World War II broke out. When the Nazis ...

Moshe and his mother moved every few months from one home to another, fleeing the Nazis. He was too young to understand why he was running, but he understood fear, and he saw that fear every day on ...