Author : Irving Sinclair
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593222628
Celebrate turning NUMBER years old, becoming an adult, and reading from the NOUN with friends, family, and Mad Libs! Wish your favorite bar or bat mitzvah a heartfelt Mazel Tov with Mitzvah Mad Libs! These 21 hysterical fill-in-the-blank stories are perfect for the whole family (even bubbe and zayde!) and as much fun as your giant Bar/Bat Mitzvah party. L'Chaim!
Author : Linda Cohen
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 158005420X
When her father passed away in 2006, Linda Cohen’s busy life as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur came to a screeching halt. She took a spiritual sabbatical to work through her grief, and she came out of it resolved to embark upon a project: perform one thousand acts of kindness—mitzvahs—to honor her father’s memory. 1,000 Mitzvahs shares Cohen’s two-and-a-half-year journey from sorrow to inspiration through simple daily acts of kindness. She presents each mitzvah as a short vignette, and the myriad forms they take—from helping the elderly to donating to good causes to baking and collecting food for others—highlight the many ways in which one person can touch the lives of others. As she pursues her quest, Cohen finds that her life is improved by these small acts—that every time she goes out of her way to do something good for someone else, she enhances her own well-being. More than a touching story of a daughter’s love for her father, 1,000 Mitzvahs is a testament to the transformational power of kindness, and a call to arms for those who would like to follow in Cohen’s footsteps with their own mitzvahs—no matter how large or how small.
Author : Cantor Helen Leneman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580235026
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 : Tamsin Lane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1501176145
There are many ways this story can go. YOU decide what happens next. And if you don’t like how it ends? Just start again! The Yes No Maybe So series is an interactive reading experience about friendships, family, and all the feelings. Yael Lewis is dreading her bat mitzvah. Her loving but clueless mother insists on throwing an epic birthday extravaganza, even though Yael hates the spotlight. Despite herself, Yael is excited when her crush Cam accepts the invitation. But then she meets Gabriel, the emcee’s son, whose chill attitude makes her rethink the party plans. Thank goodness her old friend Eli will be there to keep her steady, even though he’s returned from camping a little bit different. Will Yael’s party be the best…or a bust? You have the power to choose what happens…and the chance to choose differently next time!
Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393061727
A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Author : Ben Furnish
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780820461977
Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.
Author : Samuel J. Kessler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
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ISBN : 082761912X
Author : Stacey Agdern
Publisher : Tule Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1958686786
Sharing isn’t caring when it comes to your big day. Judith Nachman loves working as a project manager at the Mitzvah Alliance charity, and after five years, it’s finally her turn to have the bat mitzvah of her dreams. Judith is enjoying every single moment of the process—until she learns she has to share her day with the annoying hockey player who derailed her sister’s career. Retired hockey player Ash Mendel is determined to start an organization to support Jewish athletes, and the first step is to have his bar mitzvah. He’s not sure what he wants his day to look like, but he knows he definitely wants forgiveness from Judith, the woman he’s sharing the date with. But Judith’s nephew needs to interview an athlete, and Ash needs professional advice for his foundation, so they exchange favors. Except as they get to know each other and their worlds start to mingle, Ash and Judith will have to decide whether sharing their lives as well as their B’Nai Mitzvah is the best decision they could make, or the biggest mistake of their lives.
Author : Behrman House
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780867050318
The leading thinkers in Jewish education today analyze current practices, reflect on the social and psychological aspects of Bar/Bat Mitzvah, provide examples of programs to replicate, address concerns of those with special needs, outline creative family education opportunities and successful mitzvah programs, and provide strategies for teaching trope. Fifty chapters written by cantors, rabbis, directors of education, and scholars. Results of a survey of Bar/Bat Mitzvah educators included.
Author : Carole Kessner
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1557535892
Scholar, teacher, playwright, and editor, Sarah Blacher Cohen was one of the earliest champions of the study of American Jewish literature, a field of academic study that has been in existence for barely thirty-five years. Over the years until her premature death in 2008, she contributed to the discipline in a profusion of genres, from scholarly to popular, from essay to drama, writing or editing seven books of her own. She also wrote and produced several plays with her longtime collaborator, Joanne B. Koch. This special volume (29) of the annual, Studies in American Jewish Literature (ISSN 0271-9274), the journal edited by Daniel Walden, contains a range of tributes from her many friends and colleagues.
