NEW YORK – When the Bregman family was planning their son Daniel’s bar mitzvah this past November, parents Eleanor and Peter found themselves with a lot more responsibilities –and ownership – over the ...
After New York banned nonessential gatherings, some Jewish tweens preparing for their bar or bat mitzvah began (begrudgingly) moving their ceremonies to Zoom. Kayla Levy, a Park Slope–based ...
For the last 18 months, 13-year-old Joseph “Jojo” Hershkowitz, a student at Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in the Bronx, had been practicing for his bar mitzvah, set for Saturday, March 7. Then, on ...
When the world shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic and we were forced to have my twins’ b’nai mitzvah on Zoom, it ended up being a blessing in disguise. Truly, I believe that we would not have ...
“We could play a YouTube version of ‘Adon Olam’ to a really catchy tune!” “We could play personal messages for him from family all over the world!” “We ...