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Confirmation

Along with a bar or bat mitzvah, which generally takes place around the age of thirteen (see “An Invitation to a Bar Mitzvah and a Bat Mitzvah”), many Jewish teenagers also take part in a confirmation exercise when they are fifteen or sixteen. The confirmation celebrates their graduation from religious school and traditionally occurs around the holiday of Shavuot, the spring festival commemorating the deliverance of the Ten Commandments.

While Jewish confirmation services were originally introduced by the Reform movement as a substitute for the bar and bat mitzvah, it has now become an addition to these celebrations of adulthood and an opportunity for Jewish teenagers to mark another step in the continuation of their religious education.