Custom masks made for a bat mitzvah during COVID-19. Masks are the new kippah , said Chavie Knapp, a mother who is giving out customized masks instead of yarmulkes at her daughter Sophie’s bat ...

Send “mitzvah boxes” Gather items from the event, and send or deliver them to the doorsteps of the virtual guests as care packages. You might include a kippah; a printed program or a prayer ...

Bat mitzvahs for Jewish girls mark 100 years and now more than a coming-of-age Since girls in the U.S. began having the public ceremony 100 years ago, more and more women have taken on a larger ...

Let’s have a serious talk about bar/bat/bet/b/mitzvah — as in the meaning of mitzvah itself. Most American Jews pronounce it as mitzveh. This is the Yiddish, folksy meaning — a nice thing to do.