B’nai Mitzvah: War, politics, bonds enliven a basement rite-of-passage
Yehuda Lev
November 16, 2006
This is a report on a bar mitzvah, although you may not recognize it as such.
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Bar & Bat Mitzvahs
B’nai Mitzvah: Celebrate sunrise prayer with breakfast outdoors
Beverly Levitt
November 16, 2006
If you were in Jerusalem at the crack of dawn on a Monday or Thursday, you would see dozens of bar mitzvah boys davening by the Western Wall, being taught to lay tefillin for the first time. In Persian families this practice includes a morning prayer service and a breakfast for close family and friends.Since the b\’nai mitzvah ceremony is rife with spiritual meaning, a lovely way to start the sacred day is an early morning gathering to greet the sunrise.
B’nai Mitzvah: Exactly how kosher was Christy’s bat mitzvah?
Cantor Ron Li-Paz
November 16, 2006
Christy\’s bat mitzvah was a monumental event for her entire family. The synagogue was full, featuring out-of-towners from New York, San Francisco and Raleigh, N.C. It was the first time that many of them had been in a synagogue.I spend countless hours preparing for these days with students and their parents.
When a couple divorces, the custody battle goes beyond dishes and children
Wendy Jaffe
October 5, 2006
Jews are not immune to America\’s divorce endemic.
Youth services give kids a break — from their parents
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 21, 2006
At what age should kids should sit in the main sanctuary? That\’s a question that synagogues grapple with yearly, as they shuffle an everchanging set of services.
Jewish bond doesn’t draw all to Holiday observances
Tom Tugend
September 21, 2006
Statistically, 39 percent of all American Jews, and 44 percent of all Jewish college students, do not attend religious services, according to the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey.
Phone call sparks memory of young AIDS victim
Gloria Baran
September 14, 2006
Ariel Jacobs had been jaundiced at birth, because of a blood-type incompatibility with her mother, and required a transfusion. As a result of contaminated blood, she contracted HIV, which later developed into AIDS.
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