This article originally appeared on Kveller. It happens around sixth grade — your child receives his or her first invitation to a bar or bat mitzvah. It arrives in your email inbox or by regular mail, ...

Open your heart and turn off your logic meter and you‘re going to enjoy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” You don’t have to be Jewish — or 13 years old — to appreciate this warmly wacky ...

When you’re thirteen years old, there are few things in the world that matter more than being thirteen. Netflix’s recent coming-of-age comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” released Aug.

Masks are the new kippah, said Chavie Knapp, a mother who is giving out customized masks instead of yarmulkes at her daughter Sophie’s bat mitzvah. “Masks have become the new normal,” said Knapp, ...

For 12-year-old Nomi Kline Solmsen, preparing for her upcoming bat mitzvah is a family affair. Her grandfather, a rabbi, is helping her learn to chant the words from the Torah. Her aunt, also a ...

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 ...

The Jewish ceremony can be the setting for a sharp look at growing up. But it has too often been used for glosses that ignore the rite’s deeper meaning. By Esther Zuckerman In the Jewish faith you ...