Relationships with our adult children — the parents of our grandchildren — are often close, trusting, and warm. Yet these relationships can, at times, be difficult to manage. Sometimes a wrong word or a misread facial expression can lead to harsh words and anger. And...
A skip-gen trip, especially to Israel, can be a peak B-Mitzvah experience for you and your grandchild....
What the Sikh Turban-Tying ceremony can teach us about B-Mitzvah...
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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. [dflip id="5855"...
Our closets and cabinets are filled with ordinary personal treasures — a pitcher from an aunt, a grandfather’s Kiddush cup, trinkets you collected in a foreign country, a pocket watch that no longer works. Sometimes we forget the potent family stories they hold. We have...
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