Have tough economic times forced you to scale back your child’s bar or bat mitzvah party plans? With your 401(k) down, is the ice sculpture out? Is your resetting ARM making you reconsider that ...
Eleven years ago, best friends Ariana Handelman and Marc Luban had a one-of-a-kind bar and bat mitzvah party: They built a playground in a day. On “Build Day,” Handelman and Luban—along with their ...
The pressure is to celebrate authentically without being ostentatious.” In most places, though, the bar mitzvah party formula remains an immovable fortress, evolving little and usually more focused on ...
Jewish Journal: B’nai Mitzvah: Ten ways to slash the cost of a big party
Do you have to spend a king’s ransom to have a fabulous bar or bat mitzvah for your child? Absolutely not, but remember that not all money-saving tips are created equal. This one — which I’ve read in ...
B’nai Mitzvah: Ten ways to slash the cost of a big party
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Becoming A Jewish Teen: Bar And Bat Mitzvah Celebrations
As October neared its end and my sister Elana’s bat mitzvah party got closer and closer, what had been occasional party preparations became a whirlwind of activity. Guest responses had to be obtained ...
The latest movers and shakers on the philanthropy scene may now be in the middle of a game of freeze dance. Teenagers celebrating their bar and bat mitzvahs have emerged as a major charitable force — ...
New York City content creator Ilana Wiles tells PEOPLE that planning a Bat Mitzvah is crazy expensive, even when you are trying to throw a 'normal party' Ilana Wiles Ilana Wiles shared that planning ...