A Plaza-hotel-loving couple from New Jersey says the romantic landmark broke their hearts when it canceled their daughter’s bas mitzvah, never telling them about a massive renovation that began in the ...

A group of 50 parents of Bar Mitzvah and Bas Mitzvah candidates, meeting informally at the request of their rabbis, agreed that the parties held in connection with the religious ceremonies were, in ...

NEW HAVEN -- All that ever stood between Sidney Krauser and the rabbinate was official ordination. But Krauser didn't need the title to spend 55 years doing much of the work of a rabbi and all-around ...

Growing up a Jewish girl in Swampscott, Barbara Vinick didn’t get to experience the ceremony that every boy does in the coming-of-age ritual called a bar mitzvah. In the ‘50s, bat (Hebrew for ...

The first Bas Mitzvah ceremony in Alaskan history took place at the Elmendorf Air Force Base, the Air Force disclosed today. The Bas Mitzvah was Sandra Fishlow, 12-year-old daughter of Captain and Mrs ...