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b’nai mitzvah

a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inLocal Voice

How my community is trying to fix a broken b’mitzvah system

Zvika Krieger by Zvika Krieger June 22, 2023June 23, 2023

Having grown up Orthodox, I only learned later in life that most young American Jews who have a b’mitzvah do so as the culmination of a multiyear educational program specifically […]

Henry Lien (right) and fellow tutor Cesar Morales (left) react to students debating about what move to make, at San Pedro Elementary School, July 6, 2022. (Photo/Jeffrey Huang)
Posted inNews

Three years later, bar mitzvah boy’s gambit is still helping kids learn chess in San Rafael

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher September 8, 2022September 8, 2022
(Photo/Flickr-María Helena Carey CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Long Island history gone awry: the story of my not-mitzvah

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz August 10, 2022August 9, 2022
Security guards confront members of the Women of the Wall movement during Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Harassment at a Western Wall bar mitzvah renews the fight over prayer spaces in Israel

by Andrew Lapin and JTA July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
Sonia Apfelblum, a Holocaust survivor, became a bat mitzvah at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo on May 12, 2022. (Photo/Miri Ekshtein)
Posted inBay Area

Two Holocaust survivors celebrate long-delayed b’nai mitzvah in San Mateo

by Dan Pine June 21, 2022June 23, 2022
Sandra Razieli officiated Teva Goldstein's bat mitzvah in Maui, Dec. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Anna Kim Photography)
Posted inTravel

Mazel tov in Maui, courtesy of former East Bay tutor  

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
A 1949 announcement in this paper about Bat (or Bas) mitzvah classes
Posted inFrom the Archives

San Francisco’s first bat mitzvah in 1947 paved the way for others

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 29, 2022
Instead of her planned bat mitzvah Torah service, Raizel Mahgel-Friedman will have a "Torah learning" ceremony streamed on Zoom on April 24. (Photo/Courtesy Nell Mahgel-Friedman)
Posted inReligion

Orthodox Jews find creative workarounds for b’nai mitzvahs during pandemic

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 21, 2020April 22, 2020
Reuben Friedman (right) with his father, Brad Friedman (left) and a sibling during his March 19, 2020, Zoom bar mitzvah. (Photo/Courtesy Brad Friedman)
Posted inReligion

Coronavirus forces b’nai mitzvah ceremonies online

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 26, 2020March 27, 2020
Alex Cohen's unusual bat mitzvah party. (Cohen is in the bottom row, second from right.)
Posted inLifecycles

Celebrating her bat mitzvah with a food tour of the Mission

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 21, 2020February 19, 2020

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