bat mitzvah

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His best-known innovation—his introduction, in 1922, of the modern bat mitzvah, to mark the 12th birthdays of Jewish girls—is now standard practice in all but Orthodox synagogues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

My kid has her bat mitzvah in February.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

If it’s your niece’s bat mitzvah, it’s suddenly like: Are you supposed to give $18,000 instead of $360?

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

And so they find an unlikely friend in each other, for lunches and bat mitzvah crashing and trips to Coney Island.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

I took it for granted that she’d be at my bat mitzvah too.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan