Forty-eight years ago this week, on a frigid winter evening in the red rotunda of Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue, I sat ...

For boys, the equivalent ceremony is called a bar mitzvah and typically takes place ... involve a gathering where the girl ...

“A real bar or bat mitzvah is hours,” she said. “So we’re trying to get people to see all the bits and pieces — speeches, a video, the grand entrance, candle-lighting, the swag, the full ...

Tracy Frank and her 13-year-old son, Liam, peered inside. It was a makeshift dress rehearsal for what will be a makeshift bar mitzvah: Or Ami, a Reform synagogue in Calabasas, lost power this week ...