bat mitzvah
This Yom Kippur, she’ll pray inside the synagogue, he’ll secure it on the outside
By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2023
(RNS) — Shana Silverstein and Tom Barbieri are among a growing rank of intermarried synagogue members.
Is ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ good for the Jews — or Judaism?
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 5, 2023
(RNS) — Why is American Judaism bar/bat mitzvah-centric? Ask Adam Sandler and his family.
Bat mitzvah turns one hundred
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 18, 2022
One small step for a young Jewish woman; one large step for Judaism.
The first bat mitzvah was 100 years ago, and has been opening doors for Jewish women ever since
By Lisa Fishbayn Joffe — March 15, 2022
(The Conversation) — Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since.
Jewish girls want to read from the Torah at the Western Wall, new bus ads proclaim
By Michele Chabin — October 13, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) Bar mitzvah boys are encouraged to read from the Torah at the Western Wall, but the state-supported Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which is run by Israel’s Orthodox establishment, prohibits girls and women from doing so.
Update: New Jersey family sought $20,000 to name baby girl
By Tom Wright-Piersanti — January 27, 2014
LAKEWOOD, N.J. (RNS) The family asked for a Jewish name and a secular name to put on the birth certificate, the Craigslist ad said. They were hoping for something biblical, and would not accept wacky names.
Faith & Reason blog lives: New home, new questions, same writer
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — November 4, 2013
The Faith & Reason blog, where readers discuss an issue or question in the news, has a new home at RNS. Opening question: Did religious school or teen programs make you the believer – or unbeliever – you are today?
Bar mitzvah training goes online in a digital age
By Jordan Friedman — August 15, 2013
(RNS) Some tech-savvy parents are signing up their kids for a more modern brand of bar mitzvah lessons, rather than schlepping them to the synagogue for the traditional one-on-one lessons in person.
Q&A with pioneering Rabbi Miri Gold
By Lauren Markoe — October 25, 2012
WASHINGTON (RNS) Rabbi Miri Gold recently won a landmark case before Israel's Supreme Court that will make her the first non-Orthodox rabbi on the Jewish state's payroll. On her American victory tour, she talked about religious freedom, her belated bat mitzvah, and why she believes in the separation of church and state. By Lauren Markoe.
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