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The Art of the Mitzvah

As becoming a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is a meaningful time in your life, your mitzvah project should be a reflection of that. Showing your community how you will grow to support it as an adult through your interests and passions. For creative teens, having an artful Mitzvah Project has just gotten easier. Now you can create meaningful change in your community or the world-at-large through art. Take Lauren, for example…the goal of her mitzvah project was to combine her art passion and create a lasting impact on children’s lives. For her cause, Lauren chose a residential program serving 73 severely disabled […]

What Are The Most Popular Mitzvah Projects?

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 […]

Saving Lives In Israel

SAVING LIVES IN ISRAEL New England Jewish Students Save-A-Life Ambulance Project: 2015-2016 In 2002, a member of Congregation Beth El in Newton, MA, had an idea: have Jewish ‘kids’ learn about the power of tsadakah and the Jewish concept about saving lives. He (Harry Bloom) asked the representative of American Friends of Magen David Adom [who had just finished a presentation on Magen David Adom (MDA) & how it saves lives of anyone, anytime, anywhere in Israel who needs emergency medical care] how much an MDA ambulance cost. When he was given the figure, and asked when he wanted to […]

2016 Mitzvah Project Predictions

As every industry comes up with their own predictions for the new year, The Mitzvah Bowl has the inability to predict what kids will choose as their upcoming mitzvah projects. We cannot look into a crystal ball or the future to see what each individual child may decide as a bar/bat mitzvah project. However, what we can do is give you a sense of trends we observe throughout the year. Here is our prediction list for 2016: Custom Bar/Bat Mitzvah Programs Created By Organizations. Non-profits have more of a handle on their youth volunteers and are beginning to communicate with […]

Simple Hanukkah Giving Ideas

Are you thinking of making your family’s Hanukkah gift exchange an exercise in giving back too? We’ve come up with a couple of creative ways to give back to others:1. For your polyanna exchange, find out what your local Jewish Family Services needs in the way of Hanukkah presents for their clients. Instead of (or in addition to) picking names of family members for gift exchanges, choose toys/clothing articles needed by area children. One family member should be the point person to deliver the items to the Jewish Family Services local office. 2. Make latkes and sufganiyot to deliver to […]

Preppy Chic Mitzvah

The following is a vendor-sponsored post by Ali Weitzman at ISparkleEvents.com Oooh la la. Do you love Scout Bags? Then you are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE this Washington, DC classic event held at Bethesda Country Club. It includes some major eye candy & some rule breaking ideas that are going to completely inspire. For this preppy chic mitzvah, iSparkleEvents partnered with Scout Bags to personalize the décor for two amazing girls. Our inspiration… custom Scout fabric patterns. We choose two patterns from Scout’s Spring/Summer 2015 line in our colors of choice. First, a bright & fun ikat pattern […]

Parents Flock to Online Mitzvah Experts

What’s a bar/bat mitzvah facebook group leader in South Florida, a mitzvah vendor marketer in New York and a mitzvah project specialist in Philadelphia have in common? They are the mitzvah trio powerhouse blanketing the east coast. Bar and bat mitzvah resources are exploding all over the country. There are websites with date registries so that friends don’t have bar/bat mitzvah conflicts, online e-vite-esque invitation websites so you may track your rsvp’s through an web-based service and crowdfunding pages specifically targeted for bar/bat mitzvah projects. Many of these options have just recently launched, however there are 3 online mitzvah […]

Mitzvot Supporting Veterans!

On November 11, 2015, Veteran’s Day is celebrated throughout the U.S. We honor those who have defend or have defended our country over the years and soldiers throughout the world keeping peace in hostile areas. If you’d like to support an organization helping soldiers locally and worldwide, here are some ideas: Operation Gratitude annually sends 100,000+ care packages filled with snacks, entertainment, hygiene and hand-made items, plus personal letters of support, to Veterans, New Recruits, First Responders, Wounded Warriors, Care Givers and to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed overseas. Koshertroops was founded to help improve the morale and welfare of […]

Stress-Free Mitzvah Favors

Take away the stress of ordering favors for your Mitzvah with these 8 simple tips: 1. Figure out what size your son/daughter wears by peeking into their closet for past favors that fit them well. 2. Gauge the rest of your guest list sizes based on your child’s size. 3. If you are still not sure about sizing, ask your favor vendor to send you a sample in the size they would recommend for most 12/13 year-olds. 4. If you haven’t received all of your R.S.V.P.’s and the party date is drawing near, order as if every missing response is […]