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Items with the tag:

bar & bat mitzvah

Cover of Honey and Me
Fic­tion
Hon­ey and Me
Meira Drazin
Cover of Coming of Age: 13 B’nai Mitzvah Stories
Fic­tion
Com­ing of Age: 13 B’nai Mitz­vah Stories
Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz (Editors)
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Fic­tion
Recipe for Disaster
Aimee Luci­do
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Non­fic­tion
Year­book
Seth Rogen
Cover of It’s My Party and I Don’t Want to Go
Fic­tion
It’s My Par­ty and I Don’t Want to Go
Aman­da Panitch
Cover of Judy Led the Way
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
Cover of Becoming Brianna
Chil­dren’s
Becom­ing Brianna 
Ter­ri Libenson
Cover of Fish Out of Water
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
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Chil­dren’s
The Length of a String
Elis­sa Brent Weissman
Cover of Sammy Spider's First Bar Mitzvah
Chil­dren’s
Sam­my Spi­der’s First Bar Mitzvah
Sylvia Rouss, Illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn
Cover of Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted
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
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Reclaim­ing Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah as a Spir­i­tu­al Rite of Passage
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