Bat Mitzvah: Celebrating Jewish Women’s Empowerment | March | 2022 | Jewish Experience
Bat Mitzvah: Celebrating Jewish Women’s Empowerment March 18, 2022 This article is republished from The Conversation. Lisa Fishbein Joffe March 18, 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Bat Mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish […]