Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of b’nai mitzvah (also called bat mitzvahs for girls and bar mitzvahs for boys), Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies typically done at age 13.
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Fast Forward Video surfaces of Hunter Biden reciting prayer for justice at Georgia synagogue
The president’s son attended the bar mitzvah ceremony of his nephew a day after the government expanded its criminal probe
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Two gawky teenagers shared a slow dance at a bar mitzvah in the 1990s. 30 years later, it took every Jew I knew to find them
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Fast Forward ‘And Just Like That…’ star Alexa Swinton is having her bat mitzvah in Israel
Her character was involved in one of the more prominent b'nai mitzvah scenes in TV history
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FIRST PERSON A bar mitzvah boy, a Little League team and a boxer looking for redemption
Emile Griffith, a boxer with a tragic story, sponsored my Little League team. Would he let me skip practice to study for my bar mitzvah?
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Music The complete ranking of every pop song to ever sample ‘Hava Nagila’
These 19 songs will be stuck in your head for the rest of time. We're not sorry
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News Supreme Court’s only Jewish member warns of judges ‘undermining their own legitimacy’
Elena Kagan, speaking at a synagogue, discussed her ‘quasi-bat mitzvah,’ Chinese food on Christmas — and concerns about ‘politics’ on the high court
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News Amid water crisis, the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, makes bat mitzvah disaster plans
As residents of Jackson must boil all running water for safety, the Jewish community continues to hold services
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Fast Forward Teen star gets ‘the most expensive bar mitzvah ever’ in film version of “13: The Musical”
Eli Golden plays Evan Goldman in the Netflix adaptation of the Broadway show about a Jewish fish out of water
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