women reading Tora

Bat Mitzvah as Rite of Passage into Self and Community

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

My First Aliyah – at 70

On Shabbat Noach (the Shabbat when Parshat Noah was read) I marked my 70th birthday by reciting haftarah at the Hendon ...

Celebrating Our Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah

“Some people will do anything to get out of synagogue on Simchat Torah” said my husband as we headed off ...