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, ...

It was also just a good thing to do.” Many of us may think of a “typical” b’mitzvah as a service in synagogue on Shabbat followed by a big party that weekend, often at great expense. But there are ...

Elana Kamm is 13 years old and lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. She had her bat mitzvah at Am Yisrael Conservative ...

The director of Netflix’s new coming-of-age comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, has a confession to make: They bowed out of their own ceremony. “I got very nervous, and didn’t have mine ...

The 2005 young-adult novel “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” by Fiona Rosenbloom, a pen name of Amanda Stern, recounts the falling-out of two best friends, Stacy Friedman and Lydia Katz, ...