Jewish Ceremonies

Planning a ceremony when your family is multi-faith or multi-cultural.

Do justice, baby!

Circumcision, with all its pain, reminds us of our partnership with God and the pain of fixing a broken world.

Questions and answers about the ethics of circumcision.

Circumcision debates and intermarriage

Naming may have heavenly significance.

Jewish traditions for selecting a child's name.

A covenant ceremony welcomes a child into the community of humanity as a developing moral agent, responsible for working to perfect the world.

Why mark a newborn's arrival?

While some meaningful life events go by without any ritual to mark them, too often rituals take place without the participants experiencing any significant meaning.