We greet each child with affection and joy. Every baby comes to us full of promise and potential. As parents, we are privileged to welcome them into our families, our communities, and the embrace of the Jewish people. Raising children to adulthood, we encounter many milestones along the way. Children are weaned, lose their teeth, and start school. Some get their driver’s licenses and eventually leave home for good. Here are rituals for welcoming children and for celebrating the milestones on their paths to adulthood.
“Blessings of the breasts and the womb. / So that you may nurse, and be satisfied”
Welcoming ceremony for a baby girl inspired by priestesses
A weaning ritual to allow child to transition to next phase of independence
Learn the shehekhyanu prayer in American Sign Language, along with the Debbie Friedman melody
Learn the shehekheyanu prayer in American Sign Language
A poem for Rosh Hashanah and beginning of the school year on sending one’s child to school
Teaching a child Torah for the first time
Ceremony of redemption of the first-born child
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
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