Becoming a Jewish Adult

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The path to adulthood is full of twists and turns. From celebrating a bar/bat mitzvah to leaving home for the first time, this is a journey fraught with new freedom, new responsibilities, and an abundance of complex emotions. We offer blessings, prayers, and rituals that help parents and children use a Jewish vocabulary to describe this journey—and to experience it as richly as possible.

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A traditional bat mitzvah prayer from the community of Florence, Italy

A mother’s prayer, written for her son’s bar mitzvah

A beautiful poem about a daughter’s coming of age

Riffing on the now-traditional candle-lighting, this ceremony offers a candle for eight women in Jewish history.
A beautiful alternative to a candle-lighting ceremony
Following the synagogue service, a minyan of community members conveys what membership in the community entails.

A mother’s poem describing her experiences with divorce as they affected her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah

The goal of the Remember Us Project is to have each Bar or Bat Mitzvah student remember one individual child lost in the Holocaust.
Poem marking the occasion of a child’s Bat/Bar Mitzvah

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