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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The battalion commander, who had gotten engaged a few days earlier, had never celebrated the rite of passage.
Amichi said "I felt that it wasn’t appropriate to have a party now. When I saw the soldiers eating and enjoying themselves, I felt that it was 1,000 times more meaningful."
Rachel Yaniv brought the prime minister and the crowd to tears on Monday evening at the official ceremony for Yom Hazikaron.
“We felt a bit bad that our security guards who protected us, they got in trouble... It’s too bad they didn’t do that to the terrorists who hit us and who threatened our lives."
One Arab was killed when an Arab lynch mob tried to murder a group of children on a Bar Mitzvah hike.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish welfare organization Colel Chabad this week hosted a Bat Mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem for 36 girls who have lost a parent. Most of the parents died from illness or terror attacks, and one Bat Mitzvah girl's father was the first Israel Defense Forces casualty during last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas. “Family […]
He also chided Tel Aviv for encouraging violence by cancelling a school trip to Jerusalem.
In this Catskills summer camp, the custom is “Rocking this place like it’s never been rocked before”
‘Yesterday I was a Muslim. Today I am a Jewish man.”
By JTA
A Brooklyn boy was struck and killed by a van Tuesday night, one month before his bar mitzvah. Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, 12, was hit on Prospect Park West in the Park Slope neighborhood after chasing a ball into the street, the New York Daily News reported. The boy was pronounced dead soon after arriving at nearby […]
By JTA
Tragedy has brought out the strength of the Kadish family following the summer camp lightning strike that left their 12-year-old son in critical condition. Now he is 13. His Bar Mitzvah will be in a hospital.
By JTA
For American athletes, the Maccabiah sports even proves the games are about more than sports. Several of the American Jewish athletes were inspired to become Bar Mitzvah.
L’Chaim. Observing the Jewish Sabbath is secondary when it comes to saving a person’s life or performing a circumcision. But what happens a whiskey festival occurs on Shabbat? Hold a Whiskey Jewbilee.
Both of his parents were born to Jewish families that perished in Auschwitz.
This Rosh Hashana you can commit to be a hero, just like Fariba and Alexa Khorshad, Ariel and Adir Settenbrino and more! Read about the amazing volunteers of the Aleh Foundation.
American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, fashion designer, and occasional professional wrestler David Arquette is in Israel to film a segment in the popular Travel Channel series "Mile High." On Monday he celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Wailing Wall.
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