If you're not already planning on it, please consider attending the next in this year's series of parent workshops – next Wednesday evening, during Havurah Middle School. Even if you and your child are at the very beginning of the planning process - or in the final throes - it is not too early or too late to give some attention to meaning of the B'nai Mitzvah and to the experience of preparing for it. Please see the description below and register below. We look forward to seeing you!  - Laura Orgel, Member, B'nai Mitzvah Committee

Led by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner, Spiritual Educator, and Laura Orgel, Child & Family Therapist

This workshop is not about logistics or expectations:  it is about the meaning(s) of the B'nai Mitzvah, and its power as a rite of passage for the whole family.  Together we will explore the hopes and fears that inspire, inform, and complicate the preparation and planning process.  How can we feel more connected to our child in this process?  Our partner or ex-partner?  Our family of origin?  The rituals and liturgy?  The community?  How do we celebrate the occasion in a way that honors these connections, and our values? - Deborah Eisenbach-Budner, Havurah Education Director