This year’s Charity of Choice is Ronald McDonald House, which will be building its first house in Suffolk County soon. It will provide support to the families of children being treated at Stony Brook ...

About a year before Caleb’s bar mitzvah, he and his parents met with Temple Emanu El Rabbi Matt Cohen to try to figure out the right project for him. “Typically, students will come up with a mitzvah ...

For my older brother Aaron's bar mitzvah project, he wanted to do something to help the Nyack community. He came up with the idea of putting on a Children’s Shakespeare Theatre showcase for residents ...

One of the most well-known Jewish traditions is the bar or bat mitzvah, when teens are given the chance to ascend to Jewish adulthood in front of their friends, family and fellow congregants. But for ...

Helene Feldstein, 92, grew up immersed in Judaism, with a grandfather who was a rabbi and a cantor. Still, she had never dreamed of getting a bat mitzvah. “Seventy-five years ago, there was no thought ...