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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

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Resources for Lifecycle Events Affected by the Coronavirus

By 18Doors

Coronavirus Lifecycle Resources If your event plans are being affected by the coronavirus, we’re here to help....

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Death & Mourning, Weddings

kristin's bat mitzvah

How I Came to Embrace My Important Role in Judaism

By Kristin Eriko Posner

On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became a bat mitzvah at 33. The service...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Conversion, Identity, Jews of Color, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Synagogue

The First Hero

By Emma Mair

2017-2018 Rising Voices Fellow Emma Mair with her parents at her bat mitzvah in 2013 On my parents’ first date...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Growing Up Interfaith, Parenting Stories, Parenting Successes

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ideas and Primer for Interfaith Families

By 18Doors

We’ve compiled the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ideas and Primer for Interfaith Families as a way to help interfaith...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Bar and Bat Mitzvah

By 18Doors

To bar mitzvah or not to bar mitzvah, that is the question. Need some help? Want to learn ways to make your...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Quincineara Barbie

By Anna Keller

It’s been two weeks of vacation for my family in upstate New York. Nothing but fun, sun, relaxing walks by...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Leading the Way Through Unfamiliar Terrain: The Bar Mitzvah Year

By Gina Hagler

291 May, 2006 Raising a child in a religion other than the one you grew up in is all about leading the...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting

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Don’t Sweat the Jewish Stuff

By Nina Amir Lacey

685 March, 2008 The days prior to my son Julian’s bar mitzvah service I worried about how my non-Jewish...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

The Gift Of An Inclusive and Welcoming Community

By Jane Larkin

I met my friend Tracie at an interfaith moms event at my synagogue. She was friendly, and we bonded over her...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Stories

Bar Mitzvah boy reading from the Torah

My Husband: The Jewish Parent (Who Isn’t Jewish)

By Jane Larkin

The email had arrived a week before I was to travel to Houston to speak to a congregation about interfaith marriage...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

The Battle of the Bar Mitzvah Guest List

By Jane Larkin

Before I signed the contract for the place where we would have our son’s bar mitzvah, I needed a rough...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Camp, Extended Family, Parenting Stories, Teenagers

A young boy reading the torah.

The Bar Mitzvah Brings Out the Big Questions

By Jane Larkin

Our son will become a bar mitzvah in about a year, and I imagine that this will be the first in a series of...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Extended Family, Parenting Stories, Teenagers

From Generation to Generation (or why my New England children are Broncos fans)

By Jessie Boatright

The Fateful 2016 AFC Championship Game Every team’s victory is another team’s defeat, and the stakes were high...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

Bravo Reconstructionists!

By Edmund Case

The Reconstructionist movement has once again led the way to a more inclusive Judaism by taking the bold step...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Sample B’nai Mitzvah Readings in English for Family Members

By Sam Keen

1297 July 22, 2015 Hide and Seek The God-game is hide-and-seek. He-She-It always seems to depart just before...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Unplug while on a camping trip

Airplane Mode, or How to Start Working on Your High Holiday Resolutions Early

By Jessie Boatright

One of many breathtaking views from New Mexico This is a post about the High Holidays resolutions. I know, you’re...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting, Parenting Stories

bookshelf

An Interfaith Mom’s Bookshelf

By Jane Larkin

If there is one thing I’m passionate about, it’s expanding Judaism’s tent. After years of living as a Jewishly...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Jake Chooses Love and We Choose Jake

By Rebecca Redner

Meet Jake: He’s a student at Gateways: Access to Jewish Education.  After more than two years of studying, Jake...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religious Education, Teenagers

Triplets’ Upcoming B’nai Mitzvah Shows the Power of Three

By Fredda Sacharow

1406 May 5, 2015 Mary Brodsky has helped her three adopted step-grandchildren, (l-r) Madison, Jonathan...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

A hand following words from the Torah with a pen.

Happy Bat Mitzvah Anniversary!

By Jessie Boatright

March 25, 1989 This week was my Bat Mitzvah Anniversary.  I always feel a little lighter on my feet on...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Birthright Israel and Interfaith Marriage

By Edmund Case

[This piece, by Edmund Case and Jodi Bromberg, was published in eJewishPhilathropy on September 11, 2014.] Taglit-Birthright...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Stories, Teenagers

Sticking with Israel During Violent Times

By Marsha S.

*Names have been changed My husband Charlie is a non-practicing Catholic and I am Jewish. From the get-go, we...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Israel, Parenting

Happy Second Birthday to My Little Dancer

By Jessie Boatright

My little Chaya turned two this month.  Two is a lot of fun. She is developing language at lightening speed,...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

Wedding/Bar Mitzvah Gift Giving Tips

By Marilyn Wacks

The summer months are usually filled with life cycle events and celebrations, especially weddings and Bar/Bat...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

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