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

Fans have been curious about the You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah 2 release date since the first film came out on Netflix. Directed by Sammi Cohen, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah ...

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, ...

Two years before my bat mitzvah, I dressed up as a bar mitzvah boy. It was the holiday of Purim, when costumed revelers celebrate biblical Esther’s derring-do. I wore a red blouse with an oversized ...

I was not supposed to like Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” Here is why. Some 30 years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...

For some Jewish tweens, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s reality was their worst nightmare. The evening before, Eisenstein’s father, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, told his daughter that she would be having a bat ...