B'nai Mitzvah

Rabbi Kalender and Rabbi Ben-Gideon oversee the B'nai Mitzvah program. They work closely with the students, families, tutors and ritual committee to ensure that each bar or bat mitzvah experience is meaningful and appropriate for the individual child.

For more information, please contact the rabbis' administrative assistant, Priscilla Collier.

An updated b'nai mitzvah handbook explaining all the details will be posted here shortly.

Assigning Torah honors for your child's bar or bat mitzvah? Use our fillable online honors form (PDF) to make sure the names are legible. You won't be able to save your data, but you can print it and mail or bring it in to the office knowing that we'll be able to read the names.

Want to email the form to us? Use the MS Word version of the honors form. Type the entries, save the document, and email it to Priscilla Collier.

Submissions to the Contemporary B'nai Mitzvah page: Submissions are due one month before the month of the bar or bat mitzvah. Please see the Contemporary submission guidelines (PDF) for more information.

Learning Together: Scenes from a Parent-Child B'nai Mitzvah Seminar (October 2007)

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