Bar/Bat Mitzvah Basics 2/E: A Practical Family Guide to Coming of Age Together
How to manage the process with grace, joy and good sense.
A practical guide that gives parents and teens the "how-to" information they need to navigate the bar/bat mitzvah process and grow as a family through this experience. For the first time in one book, everyone directly involved offers practical insights into how the process can be made easier and more enjoyable for all. Rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements, parents, and even teens speak from their own experience.
- What's it all about?
- Preparation for Parent and Child
- Tutoring, stress, expectations, enjoyment, planning for children with special needs
- Negotiating the ceremony and celebration
- Designing a creative service, heightening the spiritual exercise, special issues related to divorced and interfaith families, planning a party that neither breaks the bank nor detracts from the inherent spirituality of the event.
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Book details
- Author
- Helen Leneman
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice
Religion › Judaism - Topics
- bar and bat mitzvah · Judaism · Jewish coming of age · family preparation · Jewish rituals · religious ceremonies · teens and parents · special needs inclusion
- ISBN-13
- 9781580231510 (Paperback)9781681629834 (Hardcover)
About the author
CANTOR HELEN LENEMAN is a cantor and educator specializing in bar/bat mitzvah education, with experience serving communities in Los Angeles, Baltimore, and the greater Washington, DC, area. She is the author of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Education: A Sourcebook.
Leneman holds a B.A. from UCLA and an M.A. in Judaic studies from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, and studied cantorial liturgy with cantors Allan Michelson and William Sharlin. She is an associate member of the American Conference of Cantors and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.
When she’s not writing, Leneman chairs the B'nai Mitzvah Educators Network of CAJE and directs an outreach program for unaffiliated families seeking bar or bat mitzvah celebrations. This work remains central to her focus on b'nai mitzvah education.
Helen lives in Rockville, Maryland.