For that is precisely what happened two weeks ago, at the Western Wall. Young American Jews were ... In that dark moment, it was the Bar Mitzvah who showed me the way out of the darkness.

Over 40 percent of Israeli families who had the choice celebrated their sons’ Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall in 2009, the Western Wall Legacy Foundation reports. Many families from abroad did ...

45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.

Actor David Arquette had a spontaneous bar mitzvah at the Western Wall while in Israel filming his new show for the Travel Channel. Arquette, 40, read from the Torah and put on tefillin in front ...

(Just prior to the bar mitzvah disruption, the activist group Women of the Wall had been blocked from bringing a Torah into the women’s plaza, as it seeks to do monthly.) Yet two things set it ...

Preparing to dance the Bar Mitzvah boys down to the Western Wall from Colel Chabad in Jerusalem This Passover will be infused with an additional dose of unexpected joy after 120 orphan boys were ...

Dozens of Orthodox boys and young men descended on the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, just south of the main plaza, last Thursday morning, to disrupt three bar and bat mitzvah services ...

JERUSALEM — An Israeli teen who was stabbed by two Palestinian teens while riding his bike in Jerusalem celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Naor Ben-Ezra was joined at the ...

Though his bar mitzvah occurred a few years later than is ... Jerusalem's Western Wall. "He was very emotional, saying he was happy to be part of the chain of the Jewish people," Shmuel Rabinowitz ...