Whose Bar Bat Mitzvah Is This Anyway

Author : Judith Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756771005

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Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah Is This, Anyway? by Judith Davis Pdf

You're in the process of planing your child's bar or bat mitzvah, and unanticipated issues keep threatening this "joyous occasion." Maybe you're divorced and you and your ex are fighting over how much this is all going to cost. Or maybe your spouse isn't Jewish and the whole question of religious meaning is coming up all over again. Or you're worrying about your relatives' disapproval of the type of party you're planning. You are sandwiched between the needs of your emerging teenager and your aging parents, dealing with your own issues about being old enough to be the parent of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, while trying to orchestrate your child's coming-of-age. Family therapist David shows you exactly what you can do to create magic and meaning for the whole family.

Author : Judith Davis
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0312181973

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Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah Is This, Anyway? by Judith Davis Pdf

You're in the process of planning your child's bar or bat mitzvah and unanticipated issues keep threatening the joy of this "joyous occasion." Maybe you're divorced and you and your ex are fighting over how much this is all going to cost, never mind how you're going to handle the public awkwardness. Or maybe your spouse isn't Jewish and the whole question of religious meaning is coming up all over again. Or maybe you're worrying about your relatives' disapproval. They're from the city, and your plans for an informal party in the backyard will never meet their expectations. You are in the thick of a complex and pressured moment in your life, sandwiched between the needs of your emerging teenager and your aging parents, dealing with your own issues about being old enough to be the parent of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah (you were always the kid at these affairs, weren't you?), while trying to orchestrate your child's formal coming-of-age in the Jewish community. What would be crazy is if you weren't feeling stressed... For well over a decade, family therapist Judith Davis, Ed.D., has been studying the meaning of the bar/bat mitzvah in the lives of contemporary American Jewish families. In this wise and witty book, the first to focus on the psychological and development issues of the bar/bat mitzvah year, Dr. Davis shows you exactly what you can do to create magic and meaning for the whole family.

Author : Cantor Helen Leneman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580235020

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Bar/Bat Mitzvah Basics 2/E by Cantor Helen Leneman Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135941574

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Reader's Guide to Judaism by Michael Terry Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.

Author : Michael Hilton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827611665

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Bar Mitzvah, a History by Michael Hilton Pdf

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

Author : Corinne T. Field,Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479806836

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Age in America by Corinne T. Field,Nicholas L. Syrett Pdf

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives—precise moments when our rights and opportunities change—when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures—from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas—Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship.

Author : Betty Mackune-Karrer,Mary E Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317956907

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Feminism, Community, and Communication by Betty Mackune-Karrer,Mary E Olson Pdf

. . . from the minds of therapists on the cutting edge! This informative, innovative collection brings together the work of a group of “scholar-therapists,” all women, who have met regularly for ten years to discuss family therapy, gender, and postmodern ideas. The major themes--feminism, community, and communication--are taken in new directions. Feminism, Community, and Communication rethinks therapy, research, teaching, and community work with a renewed emphasis on collaboration, intersubjectivity, and the process of communication as a world-making and identity-making activity. The issues of gender, culture, religion, race, and class figure prominently in this book. In Feminism, Community, and Communication you'll find descriptions of: communal perspectives for therapists that stress listening and understanding over interpreting and knowing the power of love and spirituality in relation to organizational consultation to an agency beset by racial division research on anorexia and what it means a mentoring project for rural girls the Bar/Bat Mitzva as therapy an ethnographic study of Lebanese women Feminism, Community, and Communication takes an exciting, fresh look at these three intertwined concepts, representing a way of thinking and doing therapy, research, community work, and training that highlights the ethical dimension of each. The book takes the position that human beings are meaning-makers in a common world, and not simply objects to be scrutinized or assessed by “experts.”

Author : Rabbi Goldie Milgram
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580235228

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Living Jewish Life Cycle by Rabbi Goldie Milgram Pdf

The spiritual tools you can use to infuse Jewish life cycle ceremonies with meaning, integrity and joy. Discover the spiritual meaning in Judaism’s major life cycle moments. Understand, create and enter wholeheartedly into Jewish life cycle ceremonies, preparatory practice, and celebrations. More than just how-to, Rabbi Goldie Milgram guides you in making your Jewish rites come alive with meaning, beauty and with lasting impact on you, your friends and family. She takes you beyond rote rites—beyond just surviving—and directly into accessing Jewish rites of passage as a force for thriving. With careful attention to both traditional and emerging practices across the full spectrum of Jewish life, Rabbi Milgram examines: Jewish Weddings, Traditional and Inclusive Rites Welcoming a New Baby and Raising a Healthy Jewish Child Meaningful, Memorable Adolescent and Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ritual Support for Many Stages of Adulthood Jewish Rituals for When Relationships End Jewish Approaches to Dying, Death, Burial, Mourning and Remembering

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134561858

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Judaism by Dan Cohn-Sherbok Pdf

Written by an experienced university teacher, who is also a scholar and rabbi, this extensive textbook presents an unrivalled guide to the history, belief and practice of Judaism. Beginning with the ancient Near-Eastern background, it covers early Israelite history, the emergence of classical rabbinic literature and the rise of medieval Judaism in Islamic and Christian lands. It also explores the early modern period and the development of Jewry throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Extracts from primary sources are used to enliven the narrative and provide concrete examples of Jewish civilization. Judaism: introduces texts and commentaries, including the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic texts, mystical literature, Jewish philosophy and Jewish theology provides the skills necessary to understand these step-by-step explains how to interpret the major events in nearly 4,000 years of Jewish history supports study with discussion questions on the central historical and religious issues, includes key reading for each chapter and an extensive bibliography illustrates the development of Judaism, its concepts and observances, with nearly 200 maps and photographs. A companion website links each chapter to other online resources, and gives guidance on activities and support for teachers.

Author : Anita Diamant,Karen Kushner
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780805212211

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How to Raise a Jewish Child by Anita Diamant,Karen Kushner Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent—a classic parenting book that combines insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary thinking about how children learn and grow. In this updated edition, you will discover the practices, customs, and values that go into creating a Jewish home and raising joyful children within the rich traditions of Judaism.

Author : Anita Diamant,Karen Kushner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : 9780805211160

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How to be a Jewish Parent by Anita Diamant,Karen Kushner Pdf

From the bestselling author of "The Red Tent" comes indispensable, practical advice for those who wish to build a family and a home imbued with the values and traditions of Judaism.

Author : Patti Moskovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1564144631

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The Complete Bar/bat Mitzvah Book by Patti Moskovitz Pdf

A practical and friendly guide for students and parents -- a guide that focuses on both the service and the reception, incorporating the experiences and rituals of families from all traditions.

Author : Michael Hilton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827611672

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Bar Mitzvah by Michael Hilton Pdf

The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father that he was no longer responsible for his thirteen-year-old son. Today, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls are more popular than at any time in history and are sometimes accompanied by lavish celebrations. How did bar mitzvah develop over the centuries from an obscure legal ritual into a core component of Judaism? How did it capture the imagination of even non-Jewish youth? Bar Mitzvah, A History is a comprehensive account of the ceremonies and celebrations for both boys and girls. A cultural anthropology informed by rabbinic knowledge, it explores the origins and development of the most important coming-of-age milestone in Judaism. Rabbi Michael Hilton has sought out every reference to bar mitzvah in the Bible, the Talmud, and numerous other Jewish texts spanning several centuries, extracting a fascinating miscellany of information, stories, and commentary.

Author : Randi Reisfeld
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bar mitzvah
ISBN : CORNELL:31924074559448

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The Bar/bat Mitzvah Survival Guide by Randi Reisfeld Pdf

Author : Lynn Hoffman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781324016205

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Family Therapy: An Intimate History by Lynn Hoffman Pdf

This book follows the journey of one highly curious and questing therapist from an instrumental, causal approach to family therapy to a collaborative, communal one. Because Lynn Hoffman has been in the field for almost forty years and has worked with so many of its influential thinkers, the book is also a history of family therapy's evolution. Her knowledge of family therapy is intimate and deep; her perspective is clear-eyed and often wryly humorous. Readers will be reminded that, however big and impressive the theories, family therapy is very much a human endeavor. Hoffman revisits the experiences, ideas, and relationships that have informed her journey and presents them both as she perceived them at the time and as she perceives them now looking back. Through this process of reflective conversation, she creates not only a legacy out of the people and situations that acted on her most powerfully but also a countertradition to the strategic approach that influenced her so strongly early in her career. But this is not just history. Throughout her career Hoffman has been in the forefront of family therapy. She has interacted with and sometimes worked closely with many of family therapy's influential thinkers and actors, including Jay Haley, Virginia Satir, Dick Auerswald, Harry Aponte, Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein, the Milan team, Peggy Penn, Harry Goolishian, Harlene Anderson, Tom Andersen, and Michael White. The evolution of her thinking has paralleled the major developments in the field. As she braids together continuity and innovation, she finds her own voice—a 'different voice'—and her own style—more open, more inclusive, and less controlling. In the second half of the book Hoffman demonstrates the many possibilities inherent in 'not knowing,' in working with a reflecting team, in looking for the 'presenting edge,' and in grabbing the 'emotional main chance.'