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B’nai mitzvah kids are at the perfect age to learn their family stories through oral history. While I had already written much about my ancestors and shared those stories with them orally, in ...
The B’nai Mitzvah Revolution (BMR), a national project to change b’nai mitzvah culture and encourage youth to stay engaged in synagogue even after these coming-of-age ceremonies.
When Isa Aron considers b’nai mitzvah today, she gets the impression that parents — and sometimes synagogues — care more about their son or daughter performing flawlessly when on the bimah ...
It’s a bar mitzvah movie with thin acknowledgment of Jewish tradition. Raiff’s aimless college grad Andrew — who is not Jewish — gets a job as a party starter for b’nai mitzvah receptions.
A destination b’nai mitzvah industry is taking shape on Maui, as this teen learned after COVID scrambled her original plans Feeling the sand between her toes was Teva Goldstein’s favorite part ...
The TLC Program at B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton is offering opportunities for the local Jewish community to do good ...
So, for Burt Abrams, who is scheduled to take to the bimah as an 83-year-old on June 14 at Beth Tikvah B’nai Jeshurun in Glenside, the ceremony will be just as special as the one he had in 1955. “It’s ...
More than 200 community members turned out on a recent Sunday for Congregation B’nai B’rith’s (CBB) annual Mitzvah Day celebration — a day dedicated to No paywalls. No subscriptions.
Congregation B’nai B’rith’s (CBB) annual Mitzvah Day celebrates the spirit of gratitude and giving back, 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 19. A dozen goodwill ...
Razieli moved to Maui in 2017, thinking that her skills as a yoga teacher would be how she made her living. She assumed that the b’nai mitzvah tutoring she’d done for two decades for families ...