Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The $40 Bat Mitzvah Invitation

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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Electronic invitations a growing trend, but many still want traditional paper keepsakes

A rising trend in simcha invitations may be changing the run to the mailbox for RSVPs into a dash for the email inbox and the card stock invitation mementos into computer printouts. WASHINGTON (JTA) — ...
Jewish Journal

A Plea to Lower the Bar on Bar Mitzvahs

I’ll never forget the first bat mitzvah invitation my oldest daughter, who is now 22, received. It didn’t come in the mail. It was hand delivered after dark by a lady in a fairy godmother costume, ...
Jewish Journal

A new way to send out invitations

When Will Bernstein’s only daughter, Marjolaine, asked for a video to be included in the online invitation for her upcoming bat mitzvah in 2012, he was surprised to discover that there were no ...