Bar and Bat Mitzvah

B’not mitzvah in ASL a milestone for deaf women

By Robert Weinstock Historically, many Jews who are deaf and hard of hearing did not have linguistic or cultural access to a Jewish education. This...

Fairfax teen creates COVID questions series for bat mitzvah project

Growing up during the pandemic is a strange time, leaving many children and teens feeling powerless. One local teen is using her bat mitzvah...

No more ‘bar’ mitzvah: Synagogues changing ways to support LGBTQ youth

Sponsored By Stewart Ain Over the last year, no fewer than five young people came out publicly as LGBTQ at the Society for...

Here’s how to plan a pandemic bar/bat mitzvah

When the world shut down last March as fear spread that the coronavirus was as lethal as it was unknown, Ben Pollack was days...