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The colorful homes and buildings in Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, in the Dutch Antilles. Credit: Fokke Baarssen/Shutterstock.

Curaçao or bust: A destination bat mitzvah scheduled for Israel goes Caribbean

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When the Hamas terrorist attacks occurred in Israel on Oct. 7 and war immediately broke out, the plans of hundreds of b’nai mitzvah students worldwide intent on traveling to Israel to celebrate their major...
Ariel Zohar and his Holocaust survivor grandfather Marco with a ZAKA community emergency response volunteer. Source: Merav Sever/X.

Israeli boy orphaned by Hamas attack to mark bar mitzvah

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An Israeli boy whose parents, two sisters and grandfather were murdered in the Hamas attack on his kibbutz will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Thursday. Ariel Zohar of Kibbutz Nahal Oz was saved from the...
Rabbi Avi Hoffman (left) introduces the three Jewish Scout—from left: Gabriel and Joshua Greengas, and Coulton Perrmann—who each became a bar mitzvah at the 2023 National Scout Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.V., on July 24, 2023. Photo by the National Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Jewish Jamboree: Three Scouts celebrate bar mitzvahs among friends

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The 2023 National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America ended on July 28 after 10 activity-packed days at the high adventure Summit Brechtel Family Scout Reserve in Glen Jean, W.V. Contingents of more than 12,500...
13-year Shmuel Kovetzik (front, center) celebrating his bar mitzvah on July 19, 2023 with his family and the emergency medics who saved his life. Photo by Magen David Adom.

13 years after saving infant, medics join ‘miracle’ bar mitzvah

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In a heartwarming reunion, a team of medics were invited to the recent bar mitzvah celebration of Shmuel Kovetzik in Kfar Chabad, near Tel Aviv, whose life they saved at birth. “We had a traumatic...
Daniel Dressin's bar mitzvah mitzvah project honors the memory of his friend Ariella. The Baltimore-area youngster is raising money for her organization Ari's Bears which provides stuffed animals to children undergoing cancer treatments. Credit: Courtesy.

Stepping up to the plate: In a time of need, teens give back

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Tutor a kid in math. Paint a community center. Distribute challahs to the homebound. Raise money for trees in Israel. Upgrade your school’s (or shul’s) recycling program. Save the manatees. It seems that there are...
Emunah Rudich celebrates her bat mitzvah in Jerusalem with 42 other orphans at the annual celebration hosted by Colel Chabad on Feb. 17, 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

42 orphans joyously celebrate their bat mitzvah in Jerusalem

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For 42 girls who came together at the Hadar Hall in Jerusalem on Monday, the idea of a bat mitzvah celebration had been something difficult to imagine. The girls were all united; they were orphans...
Tiffany Haddish. Source: YouTube.

Tiffany Haddish talks about bat mitzvah party, why her friends should study Torah

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Tiffany Haddish’s bat mitzvah celebration on Dec. 3—the same day her Netflix series “Black Mitzvah” will debut—is set to be a grand affair with lots of dancing and celebrity guests, she told the Hey Alma website. The 39-year-old’s...
Brian (left) and Benjamin Barth in Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Photo by Michael Jurick.

New York twins donate $122,000 in bar mitzvah gifts to Israeli organizations

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Benjamin and Brian Barth, 13-year-old twins from New York City, are passionate about the State of Israel and the transformative power of sports. To celebrate their recent bar mitzvahs at Park Avenue Synagogue, they worked with UJA-Federation of New York’s...