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Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life

Our world offers a dizzying array of options for constructing identity and making meaning. In this context, all Jews are Jews by choice. Whether choosing Judaism for the first time, or returning or affirming this path for yourself, the choice to live a Jewish life calls for ritual and communal celebration.

Musings on My Bat Mitzvah

By Leah Kamionkowski | Blog

Growing up in Argentina as a passionate Zionist and avowed secular Jew, becoming involved with a religious movement and being called to the Torah were not part of my plan.  Quite the contrary—those were attitudes that were completely incompatible with my thoughts, my ideals, my aspirations, and my vision for the future. [more]

Found In: Adult Bar / Bat Mitzvah

Older-Adult Confirmation

By Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman | Article

A confirmation class, held in a nursing home, for older adults who had received little or no formal Jewish education [more]

Found In: Adult Bar / Bat Mitzvah, Confirmation, Growing Older

From Our Foremothers

Prayer

Modern prayer invoking the foremothers [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life

Adult Bat Mitzvah Class — Personal Statement

Reading

A collective statement written by one adult Bat Mitzvah class and included in the service handed out on the day of their Bat Mitzvah [more]

Found In: Adult Bar / Bat Mitzvah

Thinking About the Adult Bat Mitzvah Phenomenon

Article

An interview with Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, about the phenomenon of adult bat mitzvah [more]

Found In: Adult Bar / Bat Mitzvah

An Adult Bat Mitzvah Journey

By Rabbi Sandra M. Rubenstein | Article

A personal account of one woman's journey through the adult bat mitzvah ritual [more]

Found In: Adult Bar / Bat Mitzvah

Adult Bat Mitzvah Service

By Suzanne Broddon and Nancy Goldstein | Article

Speeches by two adult b'not mitzvah [more]

Found In: Adult Bar / Bat Mitzvah

Ceremony for Hatafat Dam Brit Ha-ben

Complete Ceremony

A ceremony for an 11-year-old child's conversion to Judaism [more]

Found In: Conversion

Tags: hatafat dam brit, mikveh

Mikveh Mayim: Becoming A Jew

By Ona Siporin | Poem

A poem about entering the mikveh for conversion [more]

Found In: Conversion

Tags: mikveh

Conversion Ceremony at the Mikveh

Complete Ceremony

A meditation for a convert to recite before entering the mikveh [more]

Found In: Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life