Bat Mitzvah

The “Derby Bunch”, or “Six Pack” as my parents like to call them, are a motley crew of grandkids – ...

Tawonga just launched our very first bar and bat mitzvah training in the Bay Area, and I am so excited ...

My daughter Ktoret Ashira was born on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem in 2001. Two and a half years ago we ...

A few years ago my family was living in Israel and attending a synagogue near our home. One Shabbat, our ...

While the model is generally that students learn from teachers, yesterday I was reminded that teachers learn from students as ...

Last year I rediscovered Megillat Ruth. On the morning of the second day of Shavuot I joined a closely knit ...

Last month, my daughter celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. In the months before her Bat Mitzvah we moved from the Boston-area ...

I wore a white eyelet dress for my 1971 bat mitzvah. My mom bought it at a discount shop on ...

My youngest daughter will turn nine in just a few weeks, but I have already begun to actively arrange for ...

One of the conversations that I had early in rabbinic school about how we connect to the wisdom of Torah ...