EditorialHarry Oxman, 86, who celebrated his bar mitzvah in 2019, wears his tallit at his office in Philadelphia, July 28, 2022. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
EditorialThe photographer Braulio Rocha shows bar mitzvah photographs to the Rosen family children at a Montreal synagogue on Dec. 2, 2021. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
EditorialThe photographer Braulio Rocha shows bar mitzvah photographs to the Rosen family children at a Montreal synagogue on Dec. 2, 2021. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
EditorialThe photographer Braulio Rocha shows bar mitzvah photographs to the Rosen family children at a Montreal synagogue on Dec. 2, 2021. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
EditorialEmbroidered bag for prayer shawls,1870,from Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,USA. Embroidered by Charity Solis-Cohen for the Bar Mitzvah of her brother whose name is embroidered on the front. Silk,embroidered with silk thread,23 x 22,5 cm.
EditorialRabbi Angela Buchdahl blesses Zachary Frean, 14, in an in-person ceremony that follows his bar mitzvah last fall. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialRabbi Angela Buchdahl blesses Zachary Frean, 14, in an in-person ceremony that follows his bar mitzvah last fall. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialIsraeli National baseball team player Danny Valencia, who played in the major league, during a game against the Rockland Boulders in Pomona, N.Y., on July 13, 2021. (Gregg Vigliotti/The New York Times)
EditorialLittle Island, which floats over the Hudson River near West 13th Street in Hudson River Park, on the site of an old pier in New York, May 11, 2021. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialLittle Island, which floats over the Hudson River near West 13th Street in Hudson River Park, on the site of an old pier in New York, May 11, 2021. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialZelda Fassler is checked on after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in her room at the Hebrew Home in the Bronx, Dec. 21, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialA boy's Bar Mitzvah in Cracow; in 1956, the city had three synagogues, but no rabbi. A minian of ten Jewish citizens performs the ceremony in a prayer room of the Jewish Community in Cracow, Poland,1956.
EditorialA boy's Bar Mitzvah in Cracow; in 1956, the city had three synagogues, but no rabbi. A minian (the prescribed number) of Jewish citizens perform the ceremony in a prayer room of the Jewish Community. Cracow,1956.