It's a ... It's a ... It's a Mitzvah

It's a ... It's a ... It's a Mitzvah

Author: Liz Suneby

Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1580235093

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A fun-filled introduction to the joys of doing good deeds and mitzvot. Join Mitzvah Meerkat and friends as they introduce children to the everyday kindnesses that mark the beginning of a Jewish journey and a lifetime commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world). Through lively illustrations and playful dialogue, children engage with Jewish wisdom as they share in welcoming new friends, forgiving mistakes, respecting elders, sharing food with the hungry, and much, much more.


Mitzi's Mitzvah

Mitzi's Mitzvah

Author: Gloria Koster

Publisher: Kar-Ben

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 1467706957

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Adorable puppy Mitzi visits a nursing home where she helps the residents celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New year.


It’s a Mitzvah, Grover!

It’s a Mitzvah, Grover!

Author: Tilda Balsley

Publisher: Kar-Ben

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1467709921

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Grover does a mitzvah (good deed) by joining his friends to spruce up the neighborhood playground. Even Moishe Oofnik comes out of his trash can to help, eating up all the trash, and separating the cans for recycling.


Mitzvah Girls

Mitzvah Girls

Author: Ayala Fader

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-07-20

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1400830990

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Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic Judaism, Fader looks beyond the synagogue to everyday talk in the context of homes, classrooms, and city streets. Hasidic women complicate stereotypes of nonliberal religious women by collapsing distinctions between the religious and the secular. In this innovative book, Fader demonstrates that contemporary Hasidic femininity requires women and girls to engage with the secular world around them, protecting Hasidic men and boys who study the Torah. Even as Hasidic religious observance has become more stringent, Hasidic girls have unexpectedly become more fluent in secular modernity. They are fluent Yiddish speakers but switch to English as they grow older; they are increasingly modest but also fashionable; they read fiction and play games like those of mainstream American children but theirs have Orthodox Jewish messages; and they attend private Hasidic schools that freely adapt from North American public and parochial models. Investigating how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern, Mitzvah Girls offers exciting new insights into cultural production and change in nonliberal religious communities.


It’s a Mitzvah!

It’s a Mitzvah!

Author: Julie Merberg

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2023-08-30

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1761440004

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How do you raise a mensch? From respecting parents and grandparents to feeding the hungry and repairing the world (tikkun olam), the mitzvahs illustrated on each page will resonate with the littlest people of the book. This simple, fun, and meaningful introduction to the dos and don’ts of Jewish life is perfect for the newest citizens of the world and the grownups who love them.


13 and a Day

13 and a Day

Author: Mark Oppenheimer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0374106657

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Presents the story of the author's journeys across America to attend the most distinctive b'nai mitzvah he could find in order to reveal how the bar and the bat mitzvah have become a distinctively American rite of passage.


The Mitzvah

The Mitzvah

Author: Aaron S. Zelman

Publisher: Jews for the Preservation of

Published: 1999-06-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 9780964230439

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When John Greenwood, a Catholic priest from Chicago -- and a liberal "child of the 60s" -- suddenly learns that he's a Jewish Holocaust orphan, he asks desperately, what does that make him? Is he Catholic or Jewish? American or German? Father Greenwood plunges into a adventuresome search for identity and for truth. Who is right, his pacifist mentors, or his newfound family, some of whom died fighting Hitler? His mind spins as his struggle to find answers, for himself, his foster parents, his real family, and his long lost love, plays out against a background of real events in America and the world today. Everything he ever knew and believed is on trial. Tension builds to a surprise ending in Israel. 245 pages.


The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East

The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East

Author: Adam Valen Levinson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0393608379

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Chronically questioning, funny, and bold, a young American explores the majority-Muslim lands that scare him most. Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson sets out to “learn about the world 9/11 made us fear.” From a base in globalized and sterilized Abu Dhabi, he sets out to lunch in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Syria’s secret police, risks shipwreck en route to Somalia, investigates Yazidi beliefs in a sacred cave, cliff dives in Oman, celebrates New Year’s Eve in Tahrir Square, and, at every turn, discovers a place that matches not at all with its reputation. Valen Levinson crosses borders with wisecracking humor, erudition, and humanity, seeking common ground with “bros” everywhere, and finding that people who pray differently often laugh the same. And as a young man bar mitzvahed eight years late, he slowly learns how childish it is to live by decisions and distinctions born of fear.


Today I Am a Woman

Today I Am a Woman

Author: Barbara Vinick

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-11-07

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0253005175

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“The amazing tales of Jewish girls on six different continents who celebrate the Jewish ritual of becoming a woman.” —The Jewish Journal Winner, Spirituality Category, New England Festival Best Books of the Holiday Season Divided into nine regions—Africa; Asia; Australia and New Zealand; the Caribbean, Europe; the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe; Latin America; the Middle East and North Africa; and North America—this book tells the story of each girl’s unique journey and introduction into womanhood. Gorgeously illustrated with more than 100 black and white family photographs, Today I Am a Woman also captures each area’s unique customs and how they affect the lives of Jewish girls and the local Jewish community’s traditions. “The editors scoured the globe to find powerful, varied, and moving depictions of bat mitzvah in the contemporary Jewish world. This is a rich resource for anyone interested in understanding religious diversity, folk practices, and cultural creativity through the lens of gender.” —Deborah Dash Moore, former Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan “The stories speak for themselves, putting Jewish girls and women on the center of the stage, into the limelight, and at the pulpit. By showcasing ritual innovation, they make a point about Judaism’s elasticity and women’s agency.” —Hasia R. Diner, coeditor of Remembering the Lower East Side