They say a boy’s best friend is his mother. For director Nathan Silver, she’s also his muse. The comedy is loosely inspired by Cindy’s experience as a culturally Jewish woman, who at 68, enrolled at ...

The bat mitzvah is a coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish girls—one that celebrates their transition into adulthood. These are ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...

For some Jewish tweens, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s reality was their worst nightmare. The evening before, Eisenstein’s father, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, told his daughter that she would be having a bat ...

For 12-year-old Nomi Kline Solmsen, preparing for her upcoming bat mitzvah is a family affair. Her grandfather, a rabbi, is helping her learn to chant the words from the Torah. Her aunt, also a ...

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 ...