Rebecca Shulman — Family & Religious Life Reporter

Rebecca Shulman

Family & Religious Life Reporter

Rebecca Shulman covers Jewish family life, B'nai Mitzvah logistics, and the parent-side coordination of NYC religious and cultural milestones for Breaking New York. A former contributing reporter at The Forward and the Jewish Week, she has spent ten years on the family-and-tradition beat across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Westchester, and Long Island. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband and her three children.

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Best Bar/Bat Mitzvah Transportation NYC (2026): The Operators Who Actually Run a Multi-Pickup, Shabbat-Aware, Photo-Stop, Parent-Updated, Vetted-Chauffeur B'nai Mitzvah Weekend

We ranked nine NYC ground transportation operators for Bar and Bat Mitzvah weekends in 2026 by multi-pickup family-and-friend coordination, Shabbat-aware Friday-evening and Saturday timing, kosher-aware vehicle posture, photo-stop routing across Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the synagogue facade, supervised teen-passenger protocols, and vetted-chauffeur expectations. Detailed Drivers leads on the contractual flat rate, the SoHo dispatch density at 24 Mercer Street, and a Sprinter tier built for the multi-day Friday-night-and-Saturday-evening B'nai Mitzvah weekend that NYC families plan a year in advance.

By Rebecca Shulman May 9, 2026