🎉 Happy 104th birthday to the bat mitzvah in America! When 12-year-old Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, celebrated her bat mitzvah on March 18, 1922, she was the first American Jewish girl to do so—becoming a trailblazer for the many thousands of girls and women who would follow in her footsteps✨️⁠ In honor of Kaplan’s historic bat mitzvah, swipe through snapshots of celebrities at the bimah and the dance floor and read moving stories from Hadassah members’ experiences of their milestone events. We think you’ll love these selections, celebrating the profound, the spiritual, the traditional, the humorous—from the woman who shares her reflections of what it was like to be the first in her community, to the woman who paid tribute to family lost in the Holocaust, to the woman who couldn’t stop laughing, to what it means to have a bat mitzvah as an 80-something. Via hadassahmagazine #jewishhistory #batmitzvah #jewishlife