The U.S. Maccabi delegation brings participants to Israel a full week before the games begin for programming rich in Jewish content, including a mass bar mitzvah ceremony for those who never had one.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Eighty deaf and hard-of-hearing Israeli children had a joint bar and bat mitzvah ceremony in Jerusalem ... Israeli Sign Language for the audience. An initial launch celebration ...

The Bat Mitzvah is only practised by Reform and Liberal Jewish communities. The ceremony follows a similar pattern to the Bar Mitzvah and happens around a girl’s 12th birthday. During the Bat ...

Members of the Boston Area Congress for Tenants' Rights (BACTR) had planned to enter Temple Emmanuel to interrupt the bar mitzvah ceremony of the grandson of Boston landlord Maurice Gordon.

For boys, the equivalent ceremony is called a bar mitzvah and typically takes place at age 13. Although becoming bat mitzvah ...