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Items with the tag:

bar & bat mitzvah

Fic­tion
It’s My Par­ty and I Don’t Want to Go
Aman­da Panitch
Chil­dren’s
Judy Led the Way
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Margeaux Lucas (illus.)
Essay

Salinger and the Art of ​“Jew­ish Zen”

Jerome Charyn
January 4, 2021
Chil­dren’s
Becom­ing Brianna 
Ter­ri Libenson
Chil­dren’s
Fish Out of Water
Joanne Levy
Interview

Col­or­ing in the Jew­ish Expe­ri­ence: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Natasha Díaz

Michal Hoschan­der Malen
August 11, 2020
Excerpt

Excerpt — Bar­ry Son­nen­feld, Call Your Moth­er: Mem­oirs of a Neu­rot­ic Filmmaker

Bar­ry Sonnenfeld
March 10, 2020
Chil­dren’s
The Length of a String
Elis­sa Brent Weissman
Chil­dren’s
Sam­my Spi­der’s First Bar Mitzvah
Sylvia Rouss, Illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn
Non­fic­tion
Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Amer­i­ca: Bar and Bat Mitz­vah Reinterpreted
Patricia Keer Munro
Essay

Every­one Wants to Be Invited

Ear­li­er this week, Christo­pher Nox­on shared his jour­ney from ​“doing Jew” to being Jew­ish. He is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…
Christo­pher Noxon
November 25, 2015
Non­fic­tion
Reclaim­ing Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah as a Spir­i­tu­al Rite of Passage
Goldie Mil­gram
Non­fic­tion
Bar Mitz­vah: A History
Michael Hilton
Chil­dren’s
My Bas­mati Bat Mitzvah
Paula J. Freedman
Essay

A South­ern Jew­ish Superhero

Slash Cole­man is the author of The Bohemi­an Love Diaries, the per­son­al per­spec­tives blog­ger for Psy­chol­o­gy Today, and an advice colum­nist at how​doi​date​.com (Ask…
Slash Cole­man
August 27, 2013
Interview

Inter­view with Diane Heiman

JBC’s Chris­tine Maas­dam inter­views Diane Heiman, co-writer with Liz Sune­by of It’s a…It’s a…It’s a Mitz­vah and The Mitz­vah Project Book (Jew­ish Lights…
Chris­tine Maasdam
February 26, 2013

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