Bat Mitzvah
Mississippi is My Valentine
In honor of Valentine's Day, a love letter to the state I call home
How to Not Strangle the Bar Mitzvah Boy
Working with preteens is challenging, but living with them all the more so!
Celebrating Our Daughters: From Simchat Bat to Bat Mitzvah
I had been thinking about my eldest daughter’s bat mitzvah for a long time. We belong to a Modern Orthodox ...
Stories My Mother Never Told: My Bat Mitzvah Speech
“Stories My Mother Never Told” is a three-part blog series dedicated to re-envisioning what it can mean for parents and ...
Stories My Mother Never Told: Leading A Zimmun
“Stories My Mother Never Told” is a three-part blog series dedicated to re-envisioning what it can mean for parents and ...
The One Thing We Need to Stop Saying to Our Kids at their Bar or Bat Mitzvah
Celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah is a unique and special time in the life of a child, family and community. ...
Our Bat Mitzvah Celebration With The Community
We live in a provincial community in the UK and like in many provincial communities, attitudes towards women’s involvement in ...
Advice for B’nai Mitzvah
The first time I officiated at a bar mitzvah was when I was the visiting rabbi at a young congregation in ...
New SUPERGIRL Documentary Breaks Gender Norms, Lifts People’s Spirits
In January of 2013 I came across an article in the Jewish Daily Forward that read: “The strongest girl in ...
Women of the Tent: The Power of Women’s Prayer Spaces
It was a sunny winter day in Boca Raton, Florida. My mother and I approached the home where local history ...