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Recollections of the first bat mitzvah at the only synagogue in Indonesia, a poignant bat mitzvah memory of World War II Italy, and an American bat mitzvah shared with girls in a Ukrainian orphanage--these are a few of the resonant testimonies about the transition from Jewish girl to Jewish woman collected in Today I Am a Woman. Introduced by brief biographical notes and descriptions of Jewish communities around the world, these stories reveal how Judaism defines this important rite of passage in a girl's life in widely disparate settings. The contributions are from bat mitzvah girls of...

Insights, Ideas and Activities for discussing with girls what it
means to become a Jewish woman

A step-by-step guide to creative use of The JGirl s Guide in the classroom, synagogue and home. Each lesson includes:

• A clearly stated goal
• A list of Hebrew words to enrich the girls vocabulary
• A series of engaging questions and thoughtful activitiesA selection of Jewish sources relating to each lesson s topic

Insights, Ideas and Activities for discussing with girls what it
means to become a Jewish woman

A step-by-step guide to creative use of The JGirl's Guide in the classroom, synagogue and home. Each lesson includes:

• A clearly stated goal
• A list of Hebrew words to enrich the girls' vocabulary
• A series of engaging questions and thoughtful activitiesA selection of Jewish sources relating to each lesson's topic

What does it mean to become a Jewish woman?

This growing up business isn't always what it's cracked up to be: It can be complicated and scary and seem impossibly hard. With all the choices and challenges before her, how does a girl become a young Jewish woman?

The JGirl's Guide is a first-of-its-kind book of practical, real-world advice using Judaism as a compass for the journey through adolescence. This newly updated and expanded survival guide for coming of age explores the wisdom and experiences of rabbis, athletes, writers, scholars,...

Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It focuses on intermarriage in Great Britain, France, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Argentina and Curacao, then applies the findings to the United States.

In earlier centuries such a volume might have yielded much diff erent conclusions. Then Jews lived in more countries,...

Who am I? How do I feel about myself? Do I seem cool? Do I fit in?

"At a bar mitzvah people talk about becoming a man in the Jewish religion, but what is that supposed to mean? For sure it means you are no longer a child, but you are also not yet an adult. Fortunately, there's no one official definition of manhood, just as there is no one official way of being Jewish. That's where this book comes in."
--from the Preface

Courage, friends, stress, sex, God, identity--these are some of the things that concern teen guys. This book addresses those...

Who am I? How do I feel about myself? Do I seem cool? Do I fit in?

"At a bar mitzvah people talk about becoming a man in the Jewish religion, but what is that supposed to mean? For sure it means you are no longer a child, but you are also not yet an adult. Fortunately, there's no one official definition of manhood, just as there is no one official way of being Jewish. That's where this book comes in."
--from the Preface

Courage, friends, stress, sex, God, identity--these are some of the things that concern teen guys. This book addresses those...