Essential planning tips: advance registration, transportation, walking-distance venues, and how to create a seamless, meaningful celebration from the Western Wall to the City of David.
Rabbi Avigdor Hayut, who lost his eldest son in the Meron tragedy, celebrates with former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
Turns out a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall requires far more than just a reservation - and Erez Landau reveals exactly how to transform it into your family's defining moment.
A special Bar Mitzvah celebration was held on the eve of Yom Kippur at Rimonim Prison for fifteen incarcerated teenagers.
Celebrating this milestone in the land of the Jewish people adds unmatched depth and creates memories for generations
There is so much darkness in the world but the light of the Jewish people has never been brighter.
Amichai Jackson was meant to celebrate his milestone a week after the war in Gaza began but instead chose to treat a group of soldiers to dinner.
Soldiers from Battalion 129, a reserve unit on the northern border, hold bar mitzvah celebration for Yonatan Miller, a soldier from the US.
Hundreds sing in honor of bar mitzva of Tzur Yaniv, who lost older brothers Hallel and Yagel in terror attack earlier this year.
Tzur Yehuda Yaniv, whose Bar Mizvah is tomorrow, recites kaddish mourners prayer with his father at Western Wall Memorial Day ceremony.
Colel Chabad holds special ceremony at Western Wall allowing Israeli orphans to celebrate their Bar Mitzvahs.
By celebrating a Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Israel, a young man/woman can forge a lasting connection with his/her Jewish identity.
Ambassador Gilad Erdan: There are few moments as moving as when a father stands next to his son as he puts on tefillin for the first time.
Special event held this week at Hasmonean Royal Winter Palaces in Jericho, a heritage site in the Binyamin Regional Council jurisdiction.
Jason Sherman searched for the tree he planted -long distance for his bar mitzva and found a way to blast Israel - long distance. Op-ed.
Shmuel Roth, grandson of former PM Netanyahu, holds a siyum shas at his Bar Mitzvah in Mea Shearim.
Eli Golden spent the summer filming Netflix's '13: The Musical,' a film about a boy celebrating his Bar Mitzvah in a non-Jewish town.
Singer Ishay Ribo surprises Segev Raz, son of terror victim Noam Raz, dedicating a song to him and dancing at his bar mitzvah.
Shmuel Meirson isn’t like the other 12-year-old boys in his class.
The son of the fallen commando fighter Noam Raz toured Hebron where he participated in preparations for the coming event.
At a Colel Chabad event for orphaned bar mitzvah boys, MK Idit Silman goes onstage, asking singer Ishay Lapidot to sing 'Vehi she'amda.'
'If Itamar had made that error, what would I want for him? And the answer is that I would want for him the strength to move beyond this.'
The lights mean that while Jews remain true to G-d and Torah, He would be there. Explain that to Kamala, Ben and Jerry, George Soros.Op-ed.
"My ex-husband repeatedly tried to tear him from my hands with threats and lawsuits, but I didn’t give in. I knew that Yair was my future."
Middle school in New Jersey goes virtual after coronavirus outbreak reported at bar mitzvah of former Governor Chris Christie's nephew.
Boy reads from Torah scroll commissioned by Jared Kushner in first Bar Mitzvah in Bahrain since before he was born.
Israel's Attorney General arrives at Rachel's Tomb to pray in honor of his grandson's Bar Mitzvah.
More than 60 Jewish children who were rescued from Arab villages attended special camps run by Yad L'Achim this summer.
A bar mitzvah letter from grandfather to grandson on humility, leadership, and striving to be the best we can be.
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau conversation with students of ORT Maalot yeshiva forced to give up bar mitzvah because of COVID-19 fear.
Rejoice in the event that, maybe from the technical point of view, is not going to be big, but which is going to be big in your heart.
Gefen's son, named after Bob Dylan, put on Tefillin with the help of singer Eviatar Banai
What was it like growing up non-Orthodox, but Jewish, in America? Let me tell you things that I remember. Opinion
Sacntifying G-d's Name and desecrating His Name are sometimes a hairsbreadth apart.
Rachel Paige from Los Angeles conducts 'Bark Mitzvah' for her 13-year-old dog.
MDA volunteer Yossi Shmulevich never heard a Torah reading before or donned Tefillin. At age 48, he finally celebrated his Bar Mitzvah.
Victims of Hostilities Organization holds Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremony for children affected by Islamic attacks.
Avinoam Salomon, son of Elad who was murdered in the Neve Tzuf terror attack, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah with family and friends.
Andor Stern, a survovir of Auschwitz, celebrates his bar mitzvah at Sao Paulo's oldest synagogue.
A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor is celebrating his bar mitzvah on 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Rabbi with Lou Gehrig's disease and unable to move travels from California to Brooklyn for his son's bar mitzvah.
Watch: Youth from the FSU and Eastern Europe receive tefillin and candlesticks as part of a unique bar and bas mitzvah journey.
80 deaf and hard-of-hearing Israeli children have joint bar and bat mitzvah ceremony in Jerusalem. Jewish Agency Chair: 'Deeply emotional.'
Youths rescued with their mothers from Arab villages come to Western Wall for special Bar/Bat Mitzvah program organized by Yad L'Achim.
Two and a half years ago, A. knew he was Jewish but did not speak a word of Hebrew. Now he reads from his Bar Mitzvah Torah portion.
Chabad hosts Robert Meeropol, 'bar mtizvahs' him in spontaneous celebration.
Yoni, Education Minister's eldest son, celebrates Bar Mitzvah at Western Wall today. 'The most Jewish place."
MK wonders in Knesset speech about Jewishness of US Reform community; 'There are people there who are doubtfully Jews.'
16 days imprisonment, 12 months conditional sentence, and compensation imposed on Arab who stole cell phone of child on the nightmare hike.
Colel Chabad, Israel’s longest running social services organization, presents orphaned boys with Bar mitzvah Celebration before Passover.
Holocaust survivor, 83, has belated bar mitzvah to remember perished family.
18 immigrants from Ethiopia celebrate their Bar Mitzvahs with US students and singing at Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Family hopes young woman can participate in brother's Bar Mitzvah celebration tomorrow, after operation today following Wadi Ara attack.
First prosecution in attempted lynching of school-children on Bar Mitzvah hike.
Children who were attacked by Arab mob during bar mitzvah hike speak about the harrowing experience, say the Arabs threatened to kill them.
Group nearly lynched by Arab rioters during Samaria hike last Thursday is making a second attempt - and calls on the public to join them.
Facebook page calls for revenge, death of Jewish father who saved 25 children from violent Arab mob on Thursday.
Not an eye remained dry the moment the Bar Mitzvah boy donned his tefillin after being rescued from an Arab village.
45 Holocaust survivors celebrate their Bar and Bat Mitzvah at the Western Wall after being unable to do so during the war period.
