Celebrating Jewish Identity From Generation to Generation
What is exciting about becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah at Temple Emanuel? Jewish life is filled with many joys and celebrations. The clergy team of Temple Emanuel is very excited to guide you as you celebrate your child becoming a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. While this is an important simcha (milestone) in the Jewish life of your family, it also is an important event within our congregational family.
It is our hope to provide an understanding of Temple Emanuel’s values and philosophies toward becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah and help you organize the logistics involved in the process. We want to help you on the journey that not only leads to a day of rejoicing, but results in a lifelong commitment to Judaism and Jewish learning.
The most important part of Bar/Bat Mitzvah is the recognition that the values of our tradition are worth preserving and worth living. We hope that you, as parents, and your children will find this period in your life most rewarding.
Download the B'nai Mitzvah Handbook to learn about the program and its options, classes, and fees.
Need more information? Have questions not answered in the handbook? Please contact Kathy Horewitch to learn more.
B’nai Mitzvah Program Team
Cantor Sacks directs and designs the Temple Emanuel B’nai Mitzvah Program. In partnership with the Temple Emanuel clergy team, Cantor Sacks ensures that each and every family and student feels known and celebrated at this special time in their life. Steve Brodsky, Cantorial Soloist and Music Director, runs and designs the B’nai Mitzvah Program together with Cantor Sacks.
Cantor Elizabeth Sacks
B'nai Mitzvah Program Director
Steve Brodsky
B’nai Mitzvah Program Co-Director
Kathy Horewitch
Hebrew and B’nai Mitzvah Coord.
David Jacob Reynolds B’nai Mitzvah Program Fund
We are extraordinarily blessed to support and sustain our B’nai Mitzvah families through the David Jacob Reynolds B’nai Mitzvah Program Fund. The dedicated attention and certain celebration options that we offer are normally covered by our B’nai Mitzvah Program Fee of $1000. Through the remarkable gift of the Reynolds Family Foundation, we are excited to announce that our B’nai Mitzvah Program fee is now subsidized to only $90.00 per family.
Through dedication to family life and the values of the Jewish tradition, David Jacobs Reynolds (of blessed memory) and his family exemplify the meaning and message of becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah – to continue and sustain the Jewish faith from generation to generation. We joyfully thank Fred and Lundy Reynolds and the entire Reynolds family for their generosity and vision. We hope that all of our families will embrace their generosity of spirit and help us maintain this fund to subsidize the cost for future families and students.
David Jacob Reynolds, a proud WWII veteran and father of Temple Emanuel member family the Reynolds
Lundy, Fred, and David Reynolds with Lundy ‘s father Bill
