the Hasidic outreach movement. While there, he wrapped tefillin, the Jewish ritual object, as a belated celebration of being bar mitzvah, or a Jewish adult — a ceremony most Jewish boys have at ...

The Bat Mitzvah is only practised by Reform and Liberal Jewish communities. The ceremony follows a similar pattern to the Bar Mitzvah and happens around a girl’s 12th birthday. During the Bat ...

Hasidim also maintain a language barrier against the non-Hasidic world ... the age of eleven until six in the evening, and after bar mitzvah, the coming-of-age ceremony at age thirteen, return ...