Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah

The Ultimate Insider's Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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In Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Cantor Matt Axelrod provides a practical, humorous guide for Jewish students and their families as they prepare for their “big day.” Breezy and friendly yet reassuring and focused, Axelrod easily cuts through the fear and stress that teens often feel in the months leading up to their bar or bat mitzvah. In addition to helping the student prepare for the bar or bat mitzvah by walking the reader through the service and providing helpful study tips for learning a Torah and haftarah portion, Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah also helps both students and their families cope with the stressors associated with the planning of the celebration, addressing everything from teens’ fears about making mistakes to time management skills to dealing with family over/underinvolvement. Cantor Axelrod’s experience helping hundreds of teens prepare for their bnei mitzvah will help students and families not just survive but understand and enjoy this important Jewish milestone.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-08-16
Mått153 x 230 x 13 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagJason Aronson Publishers
ISBN9780765708878

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IntroductionChapter 1: Why Am I Having a Bar Mitzvah?Chapter 2: Wait! I Have to Practice?Chapter 3: The Trouble with TropeChapter 4: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Jewish Calendar (and probably a lot more than that!)Chapter 5: Can We Get Some Service Here Please?Chapter 6: What if I Make a Mistake?!Chapter 7: You Need to Attend Services More! Chapter 8: Revenge of the Bar Mitzvah KidChapter 9: Help! My _______________________* is Driving me Crazy! Chapter 10: Take Charge!Chapter 11: But We’re Not Religious (and other things that keep you away from temple)Chapter 12: Make a Connection to Just One ThingChapter 13: Now What?Appendix I: The Ultimate Insider’s Quick Hints and TricksGlossaryIndexAbout the Author

Axelrod, a longtime cantor from New Jersey, offers young adults and their parents helpful information about preparing for a bar/bat mitzvah ceremony. Beginning with a clarification (bar/bat mitzvah means “of age,” not “a ceremony”), he goes on to discuss practice (“yes, you have to”), trope (“the secret code for singing any haftarah or Torah portion”), parts of the service, making mistakes, and dealing with over-involved parents. Although he opts for a humorous tone (comparing the bar/bat mitzvah service to a lavish Broadway musical with a child star), Axelrod’s message is both down-to-earth and serious: treat your service as an opportunity to be prepared and do your best, and take the initiative to become an active, rather than passive, participant in the ceremony. Chapters are divided into manageable sections with catchy subtitles (“Services Are Boring”), while frequent sidebars (“Insider’s Tips” and “Just for Parents”) and cartoon illustrations will keep even reluctant readers engaged. This is a must-have for Conservative and Reform congregational libraries as well as public libraries serving these populations.