Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of this session, parents and teens will be able to: Participants will identify the areas of miscommunication, tension, and conflict in parent/child relationships in general and around the b-mitzvah preparation process; Participants will use Jewish wisdom to help them think about issues of communication; Participants will strategize about how…
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Objectives: Participants will . . . Explore the personal experiences and emotions that are connected to Jewish identity Think critically about how antisemitism affects one’s Jewish identity and how it manifests in the wider world and in the Jewish world; Will begin a conversation between parent(s) and child that…
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Identify the way gender stereotypes are expressed and enforced in their own communities. Understand the ways these gender stereotypes can affect them. Have a deeper understanding of their parent’s or child’s experience with gender stereotypes.
Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of this session... Parents will explore why someone would want to have a b-mitzvah; Parents will explore what it means to them to “identify as Jewish” and share this identity with their children; Parents and their children will understand one another’s motivations for having a b-mitzvah
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Families will explore different ways of doing a “mitzvah project” and the differences between Chesed, Tzedakah and Tzedek. Preteens will think more about their own project in relation to their b-mitzvah. Parents will consider what aspects of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, are most…
Objectives: Participants will . . . Expect what Moving Traditions style of family sessions will be like for them and their families. Reflect on what is important to them as a family. Have meaningful conversations with one another. Describe their own contributions to a family covenant.
Objectives: Participants will . . . Understand that Torah, as the story of the Jewish people, continues to unfold as each generation adds their own voices and experiences. Name which Torah portion (parasha) the students are assigned for their B-Mitzvah, as well as their responsibilities in the Torah service.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Encounter different ways of relating to God, or a higher power, as Jews and create a self-portrait of their current understanding of God at the start of the B-Mitzvah journey. Explore how language and metaphors used to describe God can affect their understanding…
Objectives: Participants will . . . Examine components of teshuvah and discuss how they might apply in parent-child relationships. Understand an ancient Beit Hillel-Beit Shammai debate about teshuvah and practice mining a traditional text for modern values. Share with their parents or their child how the texts they learned connected to their own lives, setting…
