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From the WebAugust 13, 2026, 9:25 pm
A new B’nai Mitzvah initiative connecting youth to Israel
SparkIL offers free programs for families and educators seeking meaningful B’nai Mitzvah projects that connect Jewish values, personal passions, and Israeli entrepreneurs.
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August 11, 2026, 9:46 am
A new B’nai Mitzvah initiative connecting youth to Israel
SparkIL offers free programs for families and educators seeking meaningful B’nai Mitzvah projects that connect Jewish values, personal passions, and Israeli entrepreneurs.
By Tamar Vogel
Brett Smiley, mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, carries a Torah scroll at his bar mitzvah held at Temple Beth-El in Providence, March 14, 2026. (Candy Adriance)
March 19, 2026, 9:51 am
Divine Providence: Serving and former mayors of Rhode Island capital celebrate bar mitzvahs
Brett Smiley and David Cicilline join 11 others in a group ceremony after 18 months of study for those celebrating the rite of passage as adults
By Sue Surkes
'The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic,' by Gila Fine. (Courtesy)
June 11, 2024, 5:23 pm
A redemptive reading of Talmudic women reveals ‘radical truths’ hidden by the rabbis
Perfect for Shavuot learning, a new book by thinker Gila Fine reexamines the complex narratives of women in the Talmud, giving them new life with insightful second readings
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Dr. Aliza Lavie pictured with her new book, Iconic Jewish Women, during its launch in Jerusalem on March 18, 2024 (Credit: Lior Sade).
March 21, 2024, 11:56 am
Iconic Jewish women gather to celebrate release of new, empowering bat mitzva book
At a book launch in Jerusalem, Dr. Aliza Lavie says her new compilation is for ‘bat mitzvah girls of all ages’ who want to delve deep into their ancient heritage
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Girls from bereaved families celebrate their bat mitzvahs in a group event in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Rebecca Kowalsky)
March 12, 2024, 8:28 am
Dozens of bereaved girls gather for group bat mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem
New York-based family of Ruth Werthenschlag, 12, sponsors joint event for those who have lost immediate family members to terrorism, accidents, and illnesses
By Ariella Oldfield
Idina Menzel (from left), Samantha Lorraine, Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler and Sadie Sandler in a scene from the Netflix film 'You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.' (Courtesy Netflix)
August 25, 2023, 1:47 am
‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ draws inspiration from real celebrations
Production designer and set director say they crashed 10 ‘amazing and big and outlandish and extravagant’ parties to prepare for new Adam Sandler comedy
By Shira Li Bartov
Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler in a scene from the Netflix film 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.' (Scott Yamano/Netflix)
August 23, 2023, 2:42 am
‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is an endearing Sandler family affair
Dropping this Friday, a new Netflix film starring Adam Sandler alongside his wife and daughters puts Jewish ritual front and center in a sweet coming-of-age tale laced with humor
By Amy Spiro
Alexa Swinton shopping in Jerusalem in June 2023. (Courtesy)
June 30, 2023, 4:39 am
Child star of ‘And Just Like That’ excited to celebrate her bat mitzvah in Israel
Fresh off premiere of second season of ‘Sex and the City’ spinoff, actress Alexa Swinton discusses her non-binary character Rock, connection to Judaism and goals for the future
By Amy Spiro
Actor Adam Sandler (left) with Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin of Toronto's Beth Tzedec Synagogue, where Sandler and cast spent much of the summer filming his upcoming tween film, 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!' (Courtesy: Robyn Fryer Bodzin)
August 18, 2022, 7:08 pm
Adam Sandler spends 6 weeks at Toronto shul shooting bat mitzvah film
Sandler, Idina Menzel and SNL actor Sarah Sherman get friendly with the rabbis, Beth Tzedec’s Steven Wernick and Robyn Fryer Bodzin
By Jessica Steinberg
Vanessa Burghardt (left) and Dakota Johnson in 'Cha Cha Real Smooth.' (Courtesy of Apple/ via JTA)
June 29, 2022, 4:59 pm
Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?
Despite its theme, the film doesn’t have a particularly Jewish bent – which works to its advantage as it deals with the aspects of the coming-of-age ritual everyone can relate to
By Andrew Lapin
Adam Sandler attends the after party for the Netflix World Premiere of 'Hustle' at Baltaire on June 01, 2022 in Los Angeles, California (Phillip Faraone / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
June 8, 2022, 10:05 am
Adam Sandler’s production company making bat mitzvah-themed film
Unclear if the Hollywood star will take a role in movie version of ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,’ a 2005 young adult novel by Fiona Rosenbloom
By CALEB GUEDES-REED
Rabbi Rebecca Eisenstadt leads a bat mitzvah at The Plaza Hotel in November 2021. (Heidi Green/ via JTA)
May 28, 2022, 4:14 am
This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show
Rabbi Becky Eisenstadt started b’nai mitzvah tutoring in her hometown in Bethesda, Maryland. Twenty years later, as more Jews skip the synagogue, she’s made it into a mini-empire
By julia GERGELY
SAJ's Hebrew school graduating class of 1945, with Judith Kaplan Eisenstein — the daughter of SAJ's founder, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who also had the first bat mitzvah in the US — and her husband, Rabbi Ira Eistenstein. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
March 19, 2022, 1:58 pm
100 years ago, the first bat mitzvah set into motion an ongoing Jewish revolution
March 18 marks the centennial anniversary of Judith Kaplan’s coming of age ceremony — a turning point not just in her life, but that of US Jewry as a whole
By Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Illustrative: In this February 1, 2020, photo, Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin smiles at Hanna Raskin during her bat mitzvah at Temple Sinai in Oakland, California (AP/Noah Berger)
March 19, 2022, 1:50 pm
American synagogues mark the 100th anniversary of the first US bat mitzvah
In a variety of programs throughout the United States, Jewish women are stepping up to the dais to honor Judith Kaplan, the girl who set a sweeping change in motion in 1922
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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