With the support of a Covenant Foundation Signature Grant, the Jewish Grandparents Network (JGN) is reimagining grandparents’ role in their grandchildren’s B-Mitzvah experience.
If you are a rabbi, educator, spiritual leader, philanthropist, grandparent, or parent, you too might be reimagining the B-Mitzvah experience today: What does the teen want? What is meaningful for my family? What is right for my community?
JGN held a two-afternoon virtual symposium in May 2022. Jewish spiritual leaders, educators, ritualists, grandparents, and teens from across the country explored expansively how to transform grandparents’ roles in their grandchildren’s B-Mitzvah.
This report documents the key findings and recommendations from the symposium.
How Jewish life has changed since the first Bat Mitzvah 100 years ago
18 text discussion cards prompt B-Mitzvah teens and their families to relate thought-provoking texts from the Jewish tradition to their own lives.
Listen to what’s on your B-Mitzvah grandchild’s mind as you cook together.
Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah curriculum weaves in grandparents as integral to the family experience.
Music, movement, and dance are core ingredients in transforming B-mitzvah into a vibrant celebration.
For nonbinary, transgender, or gender-expansive teens, grandparents can celebrate grandchildren in ways that honor who they are.
When a teen grandchild collaborates with a grandparent on a mitzvah project, they can share their most important values.
A skip-gen trip, especially to Israel, can be a peak B-Mitzvah experience for you and your grandchild.
3 strategies for having significant pre- and post- B-Mitzvah conversations with your grandchild
Steps you can take to develop and enhance your own relationship with the parents of your B-Mitzvah grandchild
Steps for clergy and educators to imagine what is possible for the B-Mitzvah teen with disabilities.
Combine the memory-power of objects and the ease of photography for you and your B-Mitzvah grandchild to share parts of yourselves.
JGN held a two-afternoon virtual symposium in May 2022 in which Jewish spiritual leaders, educators, ritualists, grandparents, and teens from across the country explored expansively how to transform grandparents’ roles in their grandchildren’s B-Mitzvah. The report below documents key findings and recommendations from the symposium….
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It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Your grandchild is becoming B-Mitzvah. You envision them standing on the bimah, or perhaps encircled by family in a home celebration, chanting and singing and sharing the wisdom they have found in the Torah portion. At this milestone occasion, you may…
The B-Mitzvah walks across the bridge from childhood to young adulthood. It’s our Jewish way of accepting growth and inviting our teens into the community of adults. Grandparents can cross the bridge with them. We can engage with them, encourage them, and enjoy each other…
Interviewing your grandparent might be a brand-new and fun experience for you both. The conversation, if you develop it thoughtfully, may coax forgotten memories from your grandparent’s past, give you some new insights into their life, and perhaps bring the two of you even closer…
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