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5 Simple Ways to Ease Mitzvah Planning Stress

Most parents are immediately filled with excitement when they receive their child’s bar or bat mitzvah date. Typically this happens 2-3 years in advance of the actual date. What seems to transpire next can overwhelm even the most-experienced event/party planning parent. If your child’s bar/bat mitzvah date is within a 2-year time frame, these tips will help ease your angst. Here are 5 fabulous resources to use when starting the planning phases of your child’s mitzvah: 1. Mitzvah Planning Advice Online. Both www.mitzvahmarket.com and the Facebook page for South Florida Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah Planning Group are ideal sources. Even though Mitzvah Market […]

5 Tools Everyone With a Mitzvah Project Should Be Using

It’s the new year and time to get your plans in gear for the upcoming bar/bat mitzvah celebration. The lessons have started, the d’var torah is in it’s infancy and you are thinking about your child’s mitzvah project. Where should your child start searching for a mitzvah project? Who do I call? Can the Rabbi or Cantor point us in the right direction? How much time does my child need to dedicate to this project? How will we ever get everything done in time? There is no need to stress about the mitzvah project. We have already done the homework […]

Four Years to Celebrate

The Mitzvah Bowl is celebrating its fourth anniversary, May 1, 2014! We feel blessed to provide bar and bat mitzvah students with meaningful mitzvah projects. To say we are humbled by the thousands of you who have used our site over these past 4 years is an understatement. When we started themitzvahbowl.com, who would have thought four years later there would be cause to celebrate this milestone anniversary! Www.themitzvahbowl.com is looking forward to continuing to provide you with even more bar/bat mitzvah projects in the future. Don’t forget to check out our Blog, Event-Planning page, and of course, our main […]

Upcoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah?

Upcoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah? It’s Time! With the mitzvah season starting in September, throngs of seventh graders begin attending their friends’ b’nai mitzvahs. This is also the perfect time for parents and 2013/2014 bar/bat mitzvah students to start their mitzvah project! Once school is in session, any free time will diminish quickly. That is why during the month of August, when kids come home from camp and school books are still shut tight (except for that dreaded summer reading project), is the prime time to begin a mitzvah project. The latter part of the summer can be the most fulfilling […]