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, ...

A Chicago-area boy simply wanted to entertain his guests with a music video invitation to his bar mitzvah, but he may have invited more people than he intended when his poppy video went viral. With ...

As they began organizing the bar mitzvah of their oldest son, Josh and Kareen Rubel knew they wanted to “do something creative.” Of course, a parent who works with product developers at YouTube — ...

Reading the story of Noah in synagogue last Shabbat, I couldn’t help but sympathize with the plight of a family coping with a flood. My own family is dealing with a deluge of its own this year, but it ...

(WJHL) – Bar Mitzvah – it’s one of the most important events in a Jewish boy’s life. But Brody Criz, 13, did not want to send a traditional invite to his friends. Let’s say he did it big in a music ...

(KRON) — Big things are on the horizon for 13-year-old Brody Criz. In one of the most important times in a young Jewish boys life, Brody is making the most out of his spotlight. Check out his epic Bar ...

This video is a shout out to all my Jewish brethren out there who wanted a Wu-Tang Clan-themed Bar Mitzvah but their parents wouldn’t allow it (yes, I was going to have a different table for all the ...

Tradition has it that bar mitzvah invitations arrive in expensive-looking envelopes, via snail mail. But paper is so 20th Century! But a YouTube video invitation featuring the bar mitzvah-boy singing ...

This bar mitzvah invite really raises the bar. Brody Criz and his family parodied five Top 40 hits for an epic bar mitzvah invitation that has since gotten 800,000 hits on YouTube. Criz riffs on ...

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 ...