Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant
An indispensable "how-to" guide for creating lasting memories and special ceremonies as you welcome your new Jewish daughter.
When a son is born, every Jewish parent knows what ceremony will welcome him into the community and signal his part in the Jewish people—the brit milah. What to do when a girl is born? How can you welcome your new daughter in a truly Jewish way, and celebrate your joy with family and friends? In the past, parents who wanted a simchat bat (celebration of a daughter) ceremony for their new daughter often had to start from scratch. Finally, this first-of-its-kind book gives families everything they need to plan the celebration.
- History & Tradition—The roots of simchat bat in Jewish tradition, how it has evolved and how the past can be used to bring today's dynamic ceremonies to life.
- A How-to Guide—New and traditional ceremonies, complete with prayers, rituals, handouts to copy and step-by-step instructions for creating your own unique ceremony.
- Planning the Details—What to call your daughter’s welcoming ceremony, when and where to have it, setting it up, how long it should be, how to handle the unexpected, how to prepare a program guide and more.
- Ideas & Information—Practical guidelines for planning the event, and special suggestions and resources for families of all constellations.
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Book details
- Author
- Debra Nussbaum Cohen
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice - Topics
- Judaism · Jewish ceremonies · Jewish traditions · baby naming · simchat bat · welcoming daughters · women and Judaism · Jewish parenting
- ISBN-13
- 9781580230902 (Paperback)9781683360063 (Hardcover)
About the author
DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant.
Nussbaum Cohen has received awards from the American Jewish Press Association and the New York Press Association. She has served as a religion writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a staff reporter at The New York Jewish Week, the New York correspondent for JNS.org, and a contributing editor at The Forward. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post.
Debra lives in New York.