They call it a rite of passage. But that’s not exactly it. What we all think about a rite of passage is actually a very specific time of your life, and just a few words can immediately bring back a ...

An out-of-town friend refers to Springfield as "The City of Banks and Churches," an appellation some will find pejorative and others complimentary. I know next-to-nothing about banks, except that I ...

Harry Oxman’s bar mitzvah at the Society Hill Synagogue in Philadelphia looked much like the traditional Saturday morning event. He recited the customary prayers before and after the Torah reading. He ...

They will never know the excitement of waiting for the next Harry Potter book at midnight outside of Barnes and Noble. No matter what generation we are a part of, we all likely remember some very ...

A few days ago my daughter had her wisdom teeth removed. This is a teenage rite of passage, at least for most of us. My friend, Laurie, says that she is more highly evolved because she didn’t have ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped in, and ...

The rites of passage are passing them by. This is what it feels like for plenty of students across the valley who’ve had to deal with the loss of homecoming, school dances, extracurricular activities ...

There are no more "rites of passage" in larger modern American society because they are no longer needed to be considered an adult. A rite of passage is simply an activity that forces you to recognize ...