On a toasty Friday afternoon in a Reseda courtyard, nine people gathered with broad smiles on their faces, decked out in their prayer shawls and yarmulkes, looking out at family members and close ...

I begin by extending warm wishes to those readers currently celebrating their most solemn and important religious holidays; to Christians I wish a blessed Easter, and to Muslims a Ramadan kareem and ...

The Jewish tradition of Passover began Monday evening. It's a time of remembering the deliverance from slavery. The event holds special significance for Morris Glass, 83, of Raleigh, who endured ...

The Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration, Judaism's rite of passage, could be delayed until after the traditional age of 13 in an attempt to keep Jews active in the religion later in life. The problem, as ...

After half a year of studying, Cayla Kaplowitz, 13, feels ready to recite from the Torah at her bat mitzvah. During a service at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, she’ll receive her first tallith, or ...

After leaving Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, the Israeli teens spent a jam-packed day of touring Chicago, including a ride on Navy Pier’s Seadog cruise. Overnight camp is a Jewish rite of passage for many ...

"Today I am no longer a child, but take on adult responsibilities within the Jewish community." 13-year-old Beverly Lerner spoke those words at her bat mitzvah, a Jewish rite of passage marking the ...