CHAPTER THREE - Adolescent Issues and Coming-of-Age Ceremonies

D: Bibliography and Links

Chaim Bermant. The Walled Garden

Hayim Nahman Bialik, Yehoshua Hana Ravnitsky (Eds.). The Book of Legends: Sefer HaAggadah. (Translated by William G. Braude).

Eric Kimmel. Bar Mitzvah: A Jewish Boy’s Coming of Age.

A. Eliyahu Kitov. The Jew and His Home.

Melvin and Shoshana Silberman. From Bar/Bat Mitzvah through the Teen Years [in Rela Geffen (Ed.). Celebration and Renewal; Rites of Passages in Judaism].

Debra Orenstein (Ed.). Lifecycles; Jewish women on life: Passages and Personal Milestones. [Sections on Adolescence, esp.: On Becoming a Bat Mitzvah, by Norma Baumel Joseph].

Hayyim Schauss. The Lifetime of a Jew: Throughout the Ages of Jewish History.

Sharon Strassfeld, Kathy Green (Eds.). The Jewish Family Book. [Section on Bar/Bat Mitzvah].

Yaakov Vainstein. The Cycle of Jewish Life.

Links

English

Overview, background: historical and contemporary practice and issues
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/lifecycle/jewishlc/03-0.html

Introductory
http://www.barmitzva.org/Barmitzva/life.html
http://www.aish.com/literacy/lifecycle/What_is_a_Bar_or_Bat_Mitzvah$.asp

Modern approaches to tradition – Orthodox and others
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/lifecycle/Bar_Bat_Mitzvah/Issues.htm
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/lifecycle/Bar_Bat_Mitzvah/Issues/
BatMitzvahOrthodoxSociological.htm

Conservative and pluralistic Judaism
USA
http://www.shaaretorah.org/Bnaimitzvah.htm
http://www.kolshofar.org/bnaimitzvahs/bnaimitzvah.html
http://www.uscj.org/midwest/longgrove/HVL/bnaimitzvahindex.html

Israel
http://www.masorti.org/religious/bm.html

Modern issues and projects: General and Reform Judaism
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/lifecycle/Bar_Bat_Mitzvah
/InPractice/PuttingtheMitzvahBack.htm
http://www.ziv.org/BarBat.htm
http://www.areyvut.org/Resource/bneimitz.asp
http://www.cbisd.org/education/bar_bat_mitzvah.shtml
http://urj.org/worship/letuslearn/s14whenbar/index.cfm
http://www.ketubaworld.com/jewish_lifecycles/barmitzvah/barmitzvah-bm-504.htm

Reconstructionist Judaism
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/firstbat.html
http://www.dorsheitzedek.org/bnei_mitzvah/ http://www.dorsheitzedek.org/bnei_mitzvah/bm_guidelines_5764.htm

Secular Humanistic Judaism
http://www.folkshul.org/bnai_mitzvah.htm

Hebrew

http://www.jafi.org.il/education/ivrit/cycle/bm.html

http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mishpach/bat-mitsva/tohen.htm

http://www.pluralismisrael.com/lifecircle/mitsva2.asp

http://www.shiluv.org/heb/barmitzvah.htm

http://www.torat-hayyim.org.il/bm-heb.asp

http://www.reform.org.il/LifeCycle/barmitzva.htm

http://www.hofesh.org.il/alternatives/alternatives.html#bar-mitzvah

http://infamily.brinkster.net/hachana.html

http://www.tekes.co.il/bar-mitzwa.html

http://www.chagim.org.il/bar1.html

http://luria.jerusalem.muni.il/beney.htm

Educational Projects

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