Tag: Bat Mitzvah

“At home, there is nothing we can do. We watch the news, and we're angry. We came into a war, and Israelis uplifted us. This spirit is what we needed."

“The reality is that victims of terror are, sadly, in their own category. We are forced to approach these events differently."

The celebrants were accompanied by rabbis from their respective Jewish communities and a native speaker of their language was attached to each group.

"It’s such an important thing for mothers to stay in touch, and for our children to have others who understand what they are going through."

I deconstructed the latest notice from Women of the Wall (they've taken me off their email blast list, so I had to go to...

Charlotte’s gift will provide a clean and modern space, where the children can undergo therapy through cooking and baking.

Little Rebecca told the assembled congregation that “the suffering of others should not be forgotten.”

The Hadassah Foundation announced 13 mini-grants for organizations serving Jewish young people in 11 states.

The lovely Mayim Bialik, heartthrob of millions of geeks as Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, spoke at the National Museum of American Jewish History to mark the 90th anniversary of the Bat Mitzvah. I absolutely love Mayim, who confessed to nursing her own little boy, Fred, through age 3 ("I believe in child-led weaning"). I just think she may not be the best advocate for rituals of adulthood…

From time-to-time, I share my personal semachos with my extended family, you, my dear readers of The Jewish Press. So it is my zechus (privilege) to publish, in this column, an article that my daughter, Slovie Jungreis Wolff (Hineni lecturer and author of Raising a Child With Soul) wrote for Aish.com, on the occasion of the Bat Mitzvah of her daughter Aliza.

Pain can sometimes be sanitized by language, but it can never be truly anesthetized.

Nearly 100 people from Israel and the U.S. gathered at Kever Rachel (Rachel's Tomb) on the outskirts of Bethlehem earlier this month for what is being described as the first ever Bat Mitzvah celebration held in the kever and the recently acquired adjacent building.