Talk about it’s never too late!

As recently featured in the New York Times, a group of 10 Ohio women are “having a bat mitzvah in their 90s because it’s a hoot.”

The Jewish ceremony, which marks the transition into religious adulthood, usually happens near a girl’s 12th birthday. But bat mitzvahs were not common in North America until the ’60s, so many Jewish women of ‘a certain age’ never experienced the rite. Some choose to undergo bat mitzvah instruction in later life, but they are usually in their 50s or 60s.

The women in Ohio range from 89 to 96.

–Athena McKenzie

ShareThis