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By Nina Amir Lacey
A mother worries whether her non-Jewish family and friends will feel comfortable at her son's bar mitzvah.
Date: 02-21-2008
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By InterfaithFamily
Acknowledgements for the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Ideas and Primer for Interfaith Families.
Date: 10-27-2008
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By Esther Shchory
Growing up in an interfaith family made her feel like too much of an outsider to have a bat mitzvah ceremony when she was 13. At 37, she finally feels part of her Jewish community.
Date: 08-01-2012
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By Rabbi Daniel Kohn
A guide to synagogue etiquette for bar mitzvahs.
Date: 10-27-2008
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By Emily Savage
Having liberal, make-your-own-decisions interfaith parents made my path to Judaism a shaky one, but I got there with everyone's support.
Date: 03-03-2010
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By Dr. Judith Davis
Reprinted professional view about how the bar/bat mitzvah is a ritual that "has the potential for healing in the way it works symbolically to mark boundaries and make connections"--among family members, between the future and the past, and
Date: 11-14-2006
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By Hedi Molnar
Personal narrative from a woman who has two adopted Chinese children and is now planning one of their bat mitzvahs.
Date: 08-01-2012
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By Pamela Saeks
A prototype for a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah program.
Date: 10-27-2008
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By Debbie Burton
At her daughter's bat mitzvah, she felt silenced by her congregation's prohibition against non-Jews speaking during services.
Date: 05-05-2010
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By Rachel Baruch Yackley
Her daughter decided to have a bat mitzvah after all, in the inclusive Jewish community their interfaith family helped found.
Date: 07-03-2008