We know the word. But just because we know what it is called doesn’t always mean we know, more deeply, what it is. There are worlds to unpack in that familiar term. The physicist Richard Feynman (1918 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jewish ritual of bar mitzvah. which marks a 13-year-old young man’s assumption of religious and legal obligations under Jewish ...

In the new Austrian film “Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah,” acclaimed filmmaker Ruth Beckermann portrays in nuanced fashion what four Viennese families have to say about Jewishness, adulthood, identity, gender, ...

We humans are resistant to change. It unsettles us. Causes us discomfort. And anxiety. And yet, as first articulated by the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, change is the only constant. Whether or not ...

Many 11 and 12-year-olds dread going to Hebrew school because they find it boring and cannot connect it to their future. Perhaps they are offered a party or gifts, or they are doing it to appease ...

I was meeting with an upcoming bat mitzvah girl the other day and talking with her about the Torah (what else?). I pointed out all the books that surrounded us in my study and mentioned that as ...

At my daughter’s bat mitzvah in May, hundreds of people spread out to form a large circle and, together, carefully held a completely unrolled Torah scroll. With the scroll spread out so its entire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys ...

In the new Austrian film “Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah,” Jewish party documenter Andre describes the addictive nature of his video extravaganzas. “There are people in Israel with relatives who collect my films ...