They will sing, they will dance, and they will give 3-year-old boys their first haircuts: first cutting ... or whether it had a single origin. As Jewish rituals go, it’s not very old.

The essential Jewish observances are based on our community serving Hashem in our homeland of Eretz Yisrael. On the day of a boys “Upsherin” or first haircut, he reads the Hebrew alpha bet and ...