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A Turn In The

been preparing children for Humanistic
b'nai mitzvah for more than 30 years,
the service consists primarily of a pre-
sentation created by the student.
indsay Schubiner's bat mitz-
vah preparations didn't involve Students learn about a specific person,
using the study as a vehicle for sorting
Hebrew or learning to chant a
through their own personal ethics and
Torah portion.
values. The young adults are encour-
Instead, she interviewed a diverse
aged to select Jews "who have made a
group of Jewish women immigrants and
contribution to Judaism or the world,"
produced a video documentary on their
but can "make a case" for non-Jewish
experiences. Her bat mitzvah itself took
heroes, said Education Director Susan
place not in a synagogue, but in the
Williams.
butterfly
"The overall
conservatory
idea of the
at the
program is
Detroit Zoo.
not the 'you
For his
are a mail'
bar mitzvah,
sort of thing,
David
but a recogni-
Rosman
don that the
wrote a
students have
paper on
spent consid-
Raoul
erable time
Wallenberg,
learning
a gentile
about
who rescued
Judaism, have
Jews during
a body of
the
knowledge
Holocaust.
and are at a
Violinist
significant
Jannina
point in their
Barefield
lives where
studied
The audience at David Rosman's bar mitzvah.
they must
Jewish
begin to
music, then
think for themselves," said Williams.
performed klezmer tunes and Ernest
The b'nai mitzvah, who study con-
Bloch's "Baal Shem Suite." Jordan Bates-
versational Hebrew in the course of
Brackett researched Jewish humor.
their Jewish education, are required_ to
For centuries, Jews have marked the
incorporate Hebrew into the paper,
transition from childhood to adulthood
usually including a relevant passage
through the bar mitzvah, in which a 13-
from modern Israeli literature, the Bible
year-old boy reads publicly from the
or the Talmud.
Torah, sometimes leading services and
In his bar mitzvah presentation earli-
delivering a speech as well. In recent
er this month, Rosman read Rahel
years, the liberal streams of Judaism
Bluwstein's "Only of Myself I Knew
have welcomed 12- and 13-year-old
How to Tell," a poem about a small
girls into adulthood with similar cere-
person facing a large task. He said he
monies.
admires his bar mitzvah hero, Raoul
While the traditional bar or bat
Wallenberg, because "he wasn't even
mitzvah is a decidedly sacred event after
Jewish and was really rich and could've
which a Jew is expected to take on full
just stayed in Sweden and had a nice
religious obligations, many secular Jews
life, but he chose to put his life at risk
observe the rite of passage as well, mod-
for people he didn't even know."
ifying it to reflect their own approaches
Rosman said his bar mitzvah was
to Judaism.
more meaningful to him and his family
For Birmingham Temple, Workmen's
than a more traditional one might have
Circle and the Jewish Parents Institute,
been. "I think people that come to the
the bar or bat mitzvah, which comes
bar mitzvah learn a lot more than in a
after years of in-school learning, focuses
traditional one, because it's in English,
not on the Torah reading, but on an
so they can understand. At a traditional
individual research project.
bar mitzvah, the kids sometimes do it
At Birmingham Temple, which has

JULIE WIENER
StaffWriter

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Humanistic Jews
create new interpretations
for the bar mitzvah.