What I always guide my clients to do is not get sucked into the mitzvah machine. And keep the focus on the child,” said Jean ...

On an October night at a Philadelphia ballroom, guests enjoyed an elaborate cocktail hour with a raw bar. They recorded heartfelt messages into a rotary phone, which would be turned into an audio ...

There was no talk of synagogues, Hebrew school or a bat mitzvah for me. I remember being a little jealous in junior high as one by one, my friends had bar and bat mitzvahs — even though it all seemed ...