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- By Michele Kriegman A Passover Haggadah for adoptive parents, adopted children, and birth parents
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2. Adoption
- By Janet Ruth Falon While happily the majority of adoptions work out as planned, some do not. This havdalah ceremony marks such a loss.
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4. Chayei Sarah
By Shana Roskies
The author brings to life the Genesis tale of Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar by locating Sarah and Abraham's infertility as the central factor motivating the ...
- By Joshua Snyder Based on the NACAC (North American Council on Adoptable Children) candle-lighting ceremony
- By Anonymous A naming ceremony written especially for an adopted child.
- By Anonymous A naming ceremony written especially for an adopted child
- By Debra Ruth Kolodny Bringing the status and symbolism of covenant to the ceremony for welcoming and naming a daughter
- Rabbi Susan P. Fendrick How the adaptability of the seder's form and spirit is used to promote a special cause
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11. Turning 80
By Judith Ruskay Rabinor
A ceremony planned by a daughter for family and friends to celebrate her mother's 80th birthday
- By Rabbi Gordon Tucker An example of a halachic (sanctioned by some interpretations of Jewish law) ketubah drawing on precedent from ancient text
- By Phyllis Ocean Berman An account of a women's ceremony based upon the Passover seder, to acknowledge the passage into menopause.
- By Julie Stockler This essay on grieving the inability to bear children relates the author's dialog with her deceased grandmother about whether she has the permission to mourn.
- By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen A brief guide to babynaming history and how-to
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16. Simchat Ben
By Chaia Beckerman
Phrases from the Bible are used to form an acrostic of the child's name - a tradition in ceremony and prayer - in this welcoming ceremony for an adopted son ...
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