Bar mitzva

Anti-Zionist Jews: The wayward sons of our generation - opinion

Some Jews seek Judaism without peoplehood; the Haggadah warns that faith and community are inseparable.

|ByDORON PEREZ
A PRO-PALESTINIAN Jewish protester participates in a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (L) and former Providence Mayor David Cicilline (M) gather for the gathered for our annual St. Joseph’s Day celebration on March 19, 2026.

First, second Jewish mayors of Providence, Rhode Island, share a bar mitzvah

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and the former mayor and congressman David Cicilline had been studying Hebrew, parsing Torah portions, and preparing together for the past 16 months.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march past King's College, one of the few colleges that have divested from companies benefiting from the Israeli war.

Hearing Sieg Heil at 76: Why you can't kill the Jew inside - opinion

After a shocking antisemitic rally, a 76-year-old man embraces Judaism, reconnects with family, and finds community.

|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
Bar Mitzvah boys the day before all the excitement begins.

Iran: You are so not invited to my sons’ bar mitzvah

Twin bnei mitzvah, Persian palace dreams, and Iranian missiles lead to an unforgettable Shabbat Zachor.

|ByJUDITH SEGALOFF

Brother of Huwara attack victims marks bar mitzvah at graveside on Remembrance Day

Israelis who had come to the cemetery for Remembrance Day sang happy birthday and Mazel Tov to Tzur Yaniv.

APRIL 25, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE FAMILY of brothers Hallel, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, who were shot dead Sunday driving through Huwara, speak to press in Har Bracha, on Monday.

Chabad holds Kotel bar mitzvah ceremony for 121 orphans

This year's celebration was set against a backdrop of ongoing protests and turmoil in Jerusalem surrounding the proposed judicial reform.

MARCH 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Colel Chabad Bar Mitzvah

This week in Jerusalem: Nof Zahav

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

MARCH 10, 2023ByPEGGY CIDOR
LONELY NO more: Working in a downtown cafe.

A father's message to his son for his bar mitzvah

As you navigate the world as a Jew, remember that the two most important traits of being a mensch are to learn and internalize two things: empathy and self-control.

DECEMBER 31, 2022ByAHARON E. WEXLER
THE AUTHOR and his son.

30 hearing-impaired youth celebrate Bar, Bat Mitzvahs in new initiative

The Wednesday event started at Beit Knesset Nitzanim in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood and then continued into the Old City for a tour and ceremony at the Western Wall.

DECEMBER 10, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
As part of its Judaic Heritage Program for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired, Young Israel in Israel, together with World Mizrachi and the Jewish Agency for Israel, helped thirty deaf and hearing-impaired youth from throughout Israel celebrate their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

TikToker rates kitschy bar mitzvah t-shirts, goes viral

One video, which has received nearly 350,000 views on the app as of Thursday, sees the TikToker rate each of the shirts in creativity and how it's presented in her personal opinion.

AUGUST 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TikTok app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021.

To those whose Bar and bat mitzvahs were disrupted by haredi hooligans, I share your fury

My Zionism doesn’t stop if I’m not forever enchanted; my Zionism survives the good, the bad and the ugly.

AUGUST 2, 2022ByGIL TROY
WHEN POLICE unfairly arrested women praying at the Western Wall, Natan Sharansky fumed: It cannot be that ‘Israel, the Jewish state, is the only place in the world where women are arrested for praying Hallel.’

The writing was on the wall about violence at the Kotel - opinion

This past Rosh Hodesh, a group of rowdy and misled teens, who came to protest the monthly Women of the Wall event, blew up a bar mitzvah celebration.

JULY 16, 2022ByLEAH AHARONI
ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Torah scroll at a Western Wall prayer service on the occasion of Rosh Hodesh. The very people who have turned the Kotel into a battleground are now crying foul, says the writer.

Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?

'Cha Cha Real Smooth', a low-key charmer from 25-year-old writer-director-star Cooper Raiff that opens Friday in theaters and on Apple TV+.

JUNE 16, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in "Cha Cha Real Smooth."

Bieber, Beckham, Kim Kardashian to travel to Galilee - report

Beckham and Bieber are reportedly making the trip to attend the Bar Mitzvah of the son of businessman Shaul Nakash at the Sea of Galilee.

MAY 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
David Beckham