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Go To BlogsProfessional advice from the cantor at Valley Outreach Synagogue in California, who says interfaith bar/bat mitzvahs should not require conversions, and the non-Jewish parent should be welcomed.
Date: 07-06-2006A comprehensive guide to bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs for interfaith families, with explanations and sample rituals.
Date: 10-27-2008Personal narrative article about a born Catholic woman who converted to Judaism, as did her sister. Now, at her son’s Bar Mitzvah, she carefully includes her non-Jewish family members in the service, and the result is a great feeling of acceptance,
Date: 11-27-2006Personal narrative about the preparations for an interfaith family’s secular Bat Mitzvah, in which her step-brother and father’s Catholicism played a meaningful role.
Date: 07-18-2006Personal narrative from a Jew-by-choice who shares her advice from a stressful year of planning her son’s bar mitzvah.
Date: 06-23-2006Professional advice from rabbi who explains how his policies toward non-Jewish families regarding Bar or Bat Mitzvah and other matters have changed as he has gotten to know non-Jews who are committed to the Jewish identity of their children.
Date: 08-01-2012Personal narrative about the complications a Jew-by-choice faced when dealing with her Catholic family regarding her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah.
Date: 07-18-2006Personal narrative about the financial and domestic difficulties an interfaith family faced when planning their first daughter's bat mitzvah.
Date: 08-01-2012Personal narrative article describes how the bar mitzvah boy chose a tzedakah project for each of 13 months with a different member of his family, bonding with that person for that month, and working on a project they shared interest in.
Date: 07-18-2006A personal narrative from a mother who considered sending her boys to Hebrew school one year and Christian school the next, but decided to keep her boys in Hebrew school--and they decided to have bar mitzvahs.
Date: 06-23-2006
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