Category: Bnei Mitzvah

Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place Yourself

Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place Yourself

By Alden Solovy
January 7, 2019
Like the liturgists of old, Arlin’s work troubles us where we are too comfortable and comforts us when we are troubled
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Design Your Own Ritual with a Little Help from a Rabbi

Design Your Own Ritual with a Little Help from a Rabbi

By Rabbi Kami Knapp
August 2, 2017
Ritual helps us pay attention. From the joy of a recovery to the grief of a funeral, ritual helps us inhabit the breadth of human experience.
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How Musical-Visual Bar Mitzvah Rituals Communicated My Son’s Essence

How Musical-Visual Bar Mitzvah Rituals Communicated My Son’s Essence

By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
February 8, 2016
The last thirteen years have been a journey for my husband Fred and me into a world that we knew nothing about before: the world of autism.
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From Brit Bat to Bat Mitzvah: How Love & Tradition Work Together

From Brit Bat to Bat Mitzvah: How Love & Tradition Work Together

By Dr. Keren R. McGinity
November 21, 2015
How does an interfaith couple raising Jewish children create meaningful rituals that honor both partners’ heritage? This is a question that I asked myself when I became a parent and when I founded the Love & Tradition Institute.
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First-person Plural: On Participating in Jewish Community as a Deaf Person

First-person Plural: On Participating in Jewish Community as a Deaf Person

By Jeffery Zuckerman
June 1, 2015
Judaism is as much a community as a religion, and as such it is deeply rooted in ritual and tradition. This communal nature is cemented by speaking and singing in unison, commingling individual voices within a rhythmic repetition of sh’ma
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Renewing the Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Renewing the Bar/Bat Mitzvah, One Student at a Time

By Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum
April 28, 2015
On a recent Saturday evening, I found myself in a small artsy theater in downtown Seattle for the debut of an original animated film. When the film ended, the young filmmaker, Frieda, was greeted with thunderous applause. Afterward, she joined me on stage for a Director’s Q&A session, where I interviewed her about both the content and the making of her movie. The topic of the film? Parashat Beshalakh.
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What Does "Today I Am a Man" Mean Today?

What Does “Today I Am a Man” Mean Today?

By Rabbi Daniel Brenner
December 7, 2012
As part of bar
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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby, by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.

June 19, 2012
Life cycle rituals are not fixed experiences—even when the text and ceremony stays the same.
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Learning to Say "We": Writing Identity

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