Open your heart and turn off your logic meter and you‘re going to enjoy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” You don’t have to be Jewish — or 13 years old — to appreciate this warmly wacky ...

Sunny Sandler steals the show in a contemporary take on "Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging" with a Jewish coming-of-age twist. Adam Sandler long ago perfected the art of working with his friends ...

"Your bat mitzvah is the first day of your adult life," Stacy Friedman says via voiceover at the beginning of You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. "And everyone knows an iconic adult life hinges ...

They say a boy’s best friend is his mother. For director Nathan Silver, she’s also his muse. The comedy is loosely inspired by Cindy’s experience as a culturally Jewish woman, who at 68, enrolled at ...

The Sandler family sure knows how to throw a party! Sunny Sandler, the youngest daughter of Jackie and Adam Sandler, rang in her 13th birthday with a Bat Mitzvah celebration that was sweet to say the ...

Adam Sandler’s latest movie “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” is a family affair, starring the 56-year-old’s daughters Sunny, 14, and Sadie, 17, as well as wife Jackie, 48. Streaming now on ...

The bat mitzvah is a coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish girls. In the first official ceremony of its kind, on March 18, 1922, a young girl named Judy Kaplan took on the obligations and responsibilities ...

The Jewish ceremony can be the setting for a sharp look at growing up. But it has too often been used for glosses that ignore the rite’s deeper meaning. By Esther Zuckerman In the Jewish faith you ...

For 12-year-old Nomi Kline Solmsen, preparing for her upcoming bat mitzvah is a family affair. Her grandfather, a rabbi, is helping her learn to chant the words from the Torah. Her aunt, also a ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...