Zach Mandel, 13, unloads donations at Boca Helping Hands. Zach chose to help the organization for his bar mitzvah project. Zach Mandel, 13, rolls a cart full of donations into Boca Helping Hands. Zach ...

SHERMAN OAKS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Landon Spencer from Sherman Oaks is getting ready for a significant moment in his life: his bar mitzvah, the Jewish religious ritual and family celebration ...

Thirteen-year-old Solomon Levin was on a mission. Seated at his drum set behind his bandmates, he began keeping the beat to a rocking rendition of Green Day’s “Paranoid” — wearing a yarmulke. His band ...

Bar and Bat Mitzvah projects are an incredible opportunity for kids to develop their leadership, research, and communication skills. But at their core, these projects are about compassion– ...

Celebrating coming to an age of responsibility under Jewish law requires young people in or about to begin their teens to perform a mitzvah — good deed — for their community. For five Bellaire and ...

Jemmi Seeherman, center, and her parents smile for a picture at the PA Breast Cancer Coalition office in Lebanon. (Seeherman family) For many Jewish kids, the bar/bat mitzvah project is an obligation.

Just the right shoe was just the right fit for a bar mitzvah service project chosen by Will Labowitz of Glencoe. Will, who turned 13 on June 16 and is a rising Central School eighth grader, ...

A bar mitzvah project is helping to bring together Israeli athletes of Jewish, Arab and Bedouin backgrounds. The Israel Tennis Centers Foundation has 14 locations spread throughout Israel. It was ...

For his bar mitzvah project, Zach Mandel of Boca Raton, Florida, wanted to collect food and toiletries for less fortunate people struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Zach, 13, came up ...

For his bar mitzvah project, Zach Mandel of Boca Raton wanted to collect food and toiletries for less fortunate people struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Zach, 13, came up with what ...