When Simon Emil Freudenheim becomes a bar mitzvah this Saturday, he will be wearing the most astonishing tallit I’ve ever encountered. It is made of a letter handwritten in an amalgam of Yiddish and ...

A 13-year-old dog is now ready for his next stage in life now that he’s had his "Bark Mitzvah." Ruth and Craig Ellenberg celebrated the milestone birthday with their beloved Havanese dog Rambo earlier ...

When a book on bar mitzvah opens with a poem by Rudyard Kipling and a quote from French ethical philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, it’s clearly not your usual bar mitzvah book, of which there are many.

Sally Lieberman ascended the bimah, a new woolen tallit draped over her shoulders and a lace head-covering perched atop her mop of gray hair. In the audience, Lieberman’s estranged brother was about ...