Growing up in Mt. Airy, Arlyne Unger’s mother, Kitty, always loved hearing her daughter sing, especially at family functions.“ They’d have those big family seders and would make me sing Ma Nishtana ...
Getting a child ready for their b’nai mitzvah requires intensive preparations. For parents of children with disabilities or challenges, the process may feel especially overwhelming and stressful, and ...
The musical is based on the music of Meat Loaf, whose 1977 album Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums in history. In 1993, the singer once again teamed up with songwriter Jim Steinman ...
A dance party would mean lifting my son in a chair in joy and celebration during the hora. Both my husband and I had mitzvah celebrations of our own. We knew we wanted to celebrate our children during ...
Members of the Chabad community in Malibu, an upscale seaside town down the mountain from Topanga that has been heavily damaged by the fires, found themselves needing to hold a bar mitzvah ...
(JTA) – It seems hard to believe, but there’s never been a truly great bar/bat mitzvah movie — mostly because there just haven’t been that many bar/bat mitzvah movies, period. But after ...
Shabbat morning services will feature music written by women and a talk by Rabbi Sandy Sasso, who wrote a children’s book about Judith Kaplan’s bat mitzvah. In New Jersey, the 12-year-old who ...