March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...

The bat mitzvah is a coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish girls. In the first official ceremony of its kind, on March 18, 1922, a young girl named Judy Kaplan took on the obligations and responsibilities ...

It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls, a few not Jewish at all, gather in synagogues and temples ...

As we are approaching the 7th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Shneur Zalman Baras OBM on Rosh Chodesh Adar (Lamed Shvat), his family ...

March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to ...

It has been 90 years since Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan had his eldest daughter, Judith, stand before his congregation and read part of the week’s Torah portion in Hebrew and in English — making her the ...

Stars including Alicia Silverstone, Tiffany Haddish and the Haim sisters celebrated their Judaism as teens and continue their appreciation today Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at ...

Teagan Larkin Prins will become a bat mitzvah Saturday morning, Feb. 7, at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation. Teagan is the ...

(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. (The Conversation) — March 18, 2022, ...