Youth Activities
Bnai and Bnot Mitzva
Are you looking to hold a Bar or Bat Mitzva with a different atmosphere? Kamatz [קמצ] runs a unique workshop for youth preparing for the aliyah to the Torah. Topics covered include how to read the Torah and the Haftorah, a workshop for making talitot, and a ceremony with the parents for laying Tefillin for the first time.
The workshop is 13 sessions and is led by Rabbi Maya Lebovich. Bnai Mitzvah should register 6 months in advance of their Bar/Bat Mitzvah date.
The next workshop will begin on Tuesday, 6.9.11, 8:00 PM
You and Me – Meetings for Mothers and Bnot Mitzva
The Bat Mitzva year is an opportunity for a unique mother – daughter experience. You and Me is a series of meetings for mothers and daughters which combines study and creativity in a joint journey into the world of adolescence, Judaism, and self.
This program is facilitated by rabbinical student Na’ama Dafni-Kellen.
The program includes 7 meetings on Wednesdays from 7:30 – 9:00 PM and will begin on 8.2.12.
Please check for updates.
Cost: *200 NIS/ 400 NIS for mother and daughter.
“I Read” – Young Jewish Leadership
Surely you know how to read, but do you know how to read from the Torah?
A special opportunity to learn how to read not only from the Torah and Haftorah, but also from the megillot we read on holidays and to serve as a ‘reader ‘ in the synagogue. Participants also help teach the Bnai and Bnot Mitzva. The workshop ends with a festive ceremony on Shavuot morning and is facilitated by Yiftach Leibovic.
25 meetings, on Fridays from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM beginning on 11.11.11
Cost: *315/450
Noar Telem
Not just another youth movement, but rather youth in motion! Having fun integrated with social involvement.
Noar Telem in Mevasseret, the youth movement of the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel, begins in third grade. Each age group meets once a week during the school year, participates in field trips during Succot, Hanuka, and Passover, enjoys weekend meetings with Noar Telem from other congregations, and during the summer attends Havaya – the camp run in Israel by the Progressive Movement for Judaism.
Noar Telem are committed to the values of the Movement including equality, pluralism, and mutual responsibility. Each year the youth in Mevasseret are involved in a different project for tikkun olam.
Activities for 3rd – 9th graders are run by youth in grades 10- 12 on Tuesday from 4:30 PM.
The day and time for activities for 10th-12th are chosen by each group.
Cost: *180/200 NIS per year
Twice a year Noar Telem leads the services held in the sanctuary.
This year these services will be held on:
16.12.2011 and 01.06.2012