NEW YORK – When the Bregman family was planning their son Daniel’s bar mitzvah this past November, parents Eleanor and Peter found themselves with a lot more responsibilities –and ownership – over the ...

For some, it's 13 going on $5 million for the Jewish rite of passage as industry families "outdo one another … and the Grammys and the Emmys." By Carson Griffith Bar mitzvahs in Hollywood aren’t just ...

A state-of-the-art New York bar mitzvah owes more than a little to theater, and like all theater, it requires props. That's where Pat James comes in. An event planner with the soul of a Broadway ...

Rebecca Schwartz was featured in the Forward’s Giving section three years ago, around the time of her bat mitzvah. Back then, she was one of the first to participate in Give a Mitzvah — Do a Mitzvah, ...

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: “What I always guide my clients to do is not get sucked into the mitzvah machine. And keep the focus on the child,” said Jean Kintisch, owner of Pine Hill Events. On an October night ...

A group of 87 senior citizens celebrated their belated bar and bat mitzvahs at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday. Much of the group survived the Holocaust as children and therefore were unable ...

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday hosted 58 children whose lives have been bit by terrorism to celebrate their bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The event, which ...