The Bar Bat Mitzvah Survival Guide

Provides a practical, humorous guide for Jewish students and their families as they prepare for their "big day," helping students and families not just survive but understand and enjoy this important Jewish milestone.

How to manage the process with grace, joy and good sense. A practical guide that gives parents and teens the "how-to" information they need to navigate the bar/bat mitzvah process and grow as a family through this experience. For the first time in one book, everyone directly involved offers practical insights into how the process can be made easier and more enjoyable for all. Rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements, parents, and even teens speak from their own experience. - What's it all about? - Preparation for Parent and Child - Tutoring, stress, expectations, enjoyment, planning for children with special needs - Negotiating the ceremony and celebration - Designing a creative service, heightening the spiritual exercise, special issues related to divorced and interfaith families, planning a party that neither breaks the bank nor detracts from the inherent spirituality of the event.

Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century! Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text - written at a teen level! - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text! - Handy charts and organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah trop! - Blessings for all customs and traditions! Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only)! - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin! - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events! English texts include: - Va-Yikra / Leviticus 25: 1 to 26: 2 - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Va-Yikra / Leviticus 25: 1-13 (three aliyot) - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative)

Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century! Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text - written at a teen level! - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text! - Handy charts and organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah trop! - Blessings for all customs and traditions! Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only)! - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin! - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events! English texts include: - Shemot / Exodus 13: 17 to 17: 16 - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Shemot / Exodus 13: 17 to 14: 8 (three aliyot) - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative)

Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century! Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text written at a teen level! - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text! - Handy charts & organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah and Haftarah trop! - Full Hebrew texts of the weekly Torah & Haftarah! - Blessings for all customs and traditions! - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin! - Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only)! - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events! English texts included: - Genesis / Bereshit 47: 28 to 50: 26 - 1 Kings / 1 Melahim 2: 1-12 Hebrew texts included: - Genesis / Bereshit 50: 23-26 (Maftir) - 1 Kings / 1 Melahim 2: 1-12

Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century! Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text - written at a teen level! - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text! - Handy charts and organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah trop! - Blessings for all customs and traditions! Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only)! - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin! - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events! English texts include: - Va-Yikra / Leviticus 21: 1 to 24: 23 - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Va-Yikra / Leviticus 21: 1-15 (three aliyot) - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative)

Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century! Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text - written at a teen level! - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text! - Handy charts and organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah trop! - Blessings for all customs and traditions! Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only)! - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin! - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events! English texts include: - Vayikra / Leviticus 26: 3 to 27: 34 - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Vayikra / Leviticus 26: 3-13 (three aliyot) - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative)