Caleb Hershey, 13, of Solon held a toy drive to benefit the Cleveland Clinic's Child Life department for his mitzvah project and collected more than 200 toys, games, crafts and gift cards.

The poem, “At My Bar Mitzvah and His,” was written by Rabbi Howard Kahn and published in the Harlow High Holiday Mahzor (1972). He dedicated the poem to the memory of a thirteen-year-old hero ...

Benjamin celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Anshei Israel on Dec. 10, 2011. He attends St. Gregory College Prep­aratory School. This was his first time riding in El Tour and he biked 42 miles.

DEAR ABBY: Our daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons live in Australia because of our son-in-law’s job. One grandson will be bar mitzvahed soon, and our daughter is asking us to send her a list ...

Here is why. Some 30 years ago, I created my own rabbinical cottage industry — observing and critiquing bar/bat mitzvah, American style, and working on ways to improve it.

In the world of supplemental Jewish learning (synagogue schools), bar/bat mitzvah has cannibalized Jewish education. To quote one of my colleagues: we “teach to the test” — the ceremony.

Ahead of ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bar Mitzvah’ streaming on Netflix, we ranked the best bar and bat mitzvahs in movies and TV, from ‘Hey Arnold’ to ‘A Serious Man.’ ...

Inside Mason Disick’s lavish bar mitzvah: Food trucks, cake, balloons and more By Leah Bitsky Published Dec. 20, 2022, 10:55 a.m. ET ...

While there are many ways to go about giving thanks, Amy Wain, owner and designer at The A.L. Wain Company in Beachwood, which creates stationery, invitations, thank you notes and other custom ...

Above: A Bar Mitzvah scene from the original “Wonder Years” released in 1989. “At 12 I didn’t understand the complexity and hate behind the joke,” Williams continues.