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Keeping up with the Cohens: Would you spend £250,000 on a simchah?

Inside the hidden costs of bnei mitzvot and weddings –and hear from those who have no regrets about paying for them

By Jane Prinsley

9 min read
Keeping up with the Cohens: Would you spend £250,000 on a simchah?
Rabbi Maurice Michaels of Bournemouth Reform Synagogue will be celebrating his second bar mitzvah on Shabbat (Photo: Rabbi Maurice Michaels)
Rabbis

Bournemouth Reform rabbi to celebrate second bar mitzvah at 83

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read
Mark Jacobs with his son, Saul and women of the Madagascar-based women's embroidery cooperative
Bar Mitzvah

The Great Kippot Creative Collaboration Caper

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read
Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber and his wife US model Hailey Bieber watch Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 11, 2024. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Celebrity

Justin Bieber filmed shouting at bar mitzvah guests in LA hotel lobby

By Hannah Gillott

1 min read
Sole survivor of family celebrates bar mitzvah two months after October 7 massacre
October 7 Massacres

Sole survivor of family celebrates bar mitzvah two months after October 7 massacre

By Merav Sever

1 min read
Visually impaired bar mitzvah boy reads made-to-measure Torah
Religion

Visually impaired bar mitzvah boy reads made-to-measure Torah

By Rosa Doherty

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Who's who in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Adam Sandler's most Jewish film yet
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Who's who in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Adam Sandler's most Jewish film yet

By JC Reporter

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