,,Celebration and Negotiation: Working with Separated, Divorced, and Remarried Families Approaching Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebrations

Celebration and Negotiation: Working with Separated, Divorced, and Remarried Families Approaching Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebrations


 

Publication Date: January 1994

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Ann Hartman; Sally Weber; Stewart Vogel

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Inter-marriage; Family; Religion

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The synagogue, in cooperation with Jewish family service agencies, can provide families with workable models for the complicated decision-making process that they must undergo as they approach their children's Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations. In the program described in this article, such difficult issues as the wording of invitations and synagogue publicity, who has to attend, finances, whether to hold separate celebrations, and assigning synagogue honors were addressed in workshops co facilitated by a rabbi and social worker.