Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family 
Retreats, Programs & Training
available for Affiliated and Independent Families & Congregations

Our next open  B Mitzvah! Family Adventure Retreat is the weekend of
November 12 2011 at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center

Advance the excitement, meaning, spirituality and relevance of the bar/bat mitzvah experience with Covenant Award Finalist Rabbi Goldie Milgram , author of Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Guide to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage (Jossey-Bass Publishing) and Living Jewish Life Cycle: How to Create Meaningful Jewish Rites of Passage at Every Stage of Life (Jewish Lights Publishing), now in use in over 175 communities and thousands of homes. Rabbi Milgram did her doctorate on "Revisioning Bar/Bat Mitzvah" and is internationally acclaimed as the leading Bar/Bat Mitzvah innovator and educator. She is spearheading the National Bar/Bat Mitzvah Institute Initiative.

"Reb Goldie's"  joyful, deep and dynamic programs feature family, child and adult-centered activities that facilitate emotionally satisfying, intellectually fascinating, spiritually connected and logistically excellent bar/bat mitzvah processes and experiences. 

Students ages eleven and above are welcome and must attend sessions with at least one adult. Mature siblings, parents and grandparents are most welcome and often report these programs as highlights of their relationship time with the student.

These programs are conducted with an attitude of respectful religious pluralism. Reb Goldie regards each approach to Judaism and being Jewish as a flower in the bouquet of the Jewish people. There are many varieties of rose, pussy cat, etc., of course there are many ways to be Jewish! Religious and cultural approaches to b'nai mitzvah are covered depending upon where and for whom these programs are offered, each is customized to the local need.

Registration for our week-long international retreat the summer of 2010 and weekend open retreats for fall 2010 and Spring 2011 coming soon; these are offered at Isabella Freeman Retreat Center. We can also come to you to offer these locally as  congregational and regional workshops and programs, be in touch!

Meaning & Mitzvah:
Daily Practices for Reclaiming Judaism:

Through Prayer, God,
Torah, Hebrew, Mitzvot & Peoplehood

Reclaiming Judaism
as a Spiritual
Practice:

Holy Days
&
Shabbat

Living Jewish
Life Cycle:

Creating Meaningful
Jewish Rites
of Passage
for Every Stage
of Life

Hashpa'ah: 
Jewish Approaches 
to Spiritual Direction

30 chapters by leading Jewish spiritual teachers & scholars of our time

Make Your Own
Bar/Bat Mitzvah:

A Personal Approach
to Creating
a Meaningful
Rite of Passage