Jewish Life Events

A ritual to end the process of saying the Mourner's Kaddish for a loved one.

A healing ritual for victims of sexual, physical or psychological abuse.

A new Jewish ritual for sending young people off to college.

Celebrating menopause breaks the silences of a lifetime and forges a future of openness and sharing.

This ceremony uses elements of Jewish and other traditions to share a sense of possibility and openness with a newly menstruant girl.

The Bible sees folk healing as idolatrous.

The celebration of an infant's weaning goes back to the feast Abraham held for his son Isaac.

A ritual in recognition of the author's miscarriage emerged from a year of studying about the infertile Hannah, who eventually had a child.

The evolution of attitudes towards physicians, beliefs connecting illness and sin, prayers for healing, and the use of folk healing traditions.

The author adapts biblical texts to create a ritual that expresses the anguish of terminating a pregnancy