The Bat Mitzvah is only practised by Reform and Liberal Jewish communities. The ceremony follows a similar pattern to the Bar Mitzvah and happens around a girl’s 12th birthday. During the Bat ...

And then came the Soviets who confiscated and closed the shuls and repressed Judaism to the point of banning bar mitzvah ...

Opinion: As we remember Kristallnacht and grapple with modern echoes of hatred like the attacks in Amsterdam, let us renew ...

Scott Stringer and Elyse Buxbaum on their son’s Torah portion, about sibling rivalry and reconciliation, as metaphor for ...