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The Leadership Bat Mitzvah program is designed as a platform through which participants develop their own sense of self within the Jewish Community, both locally and globally.

Through hands-on learning, mentorship, workshops, and field trips,  participants will be able to see their path as Jewish women begin to unfold before them and play an active role in defining how they fit in. This value-based, cultural, and traditional curriculum will become the foundation for leadership development. Our program will include a mitzvah project, designed and executed by the group to reinforce that these Jewish girls have the power to change the world.

Jewish Identity:

  • What is a Bat Mitzvah and what are we
    celebrating?
  • Independent thinking and building
    confidence
  • Where did I come from? Who I am
    today? Who do I want to be?
  • Who am I named after? What is my
    Hebrew name?
  • Jewish Cooking

Jewish History:

  • Holocaust introduction (age
    appropriate)
  • Israel
  • Antisemitism – understanding the rise
    of antisemitism in today’s landscape
    and how to react, respond and deflect
  • Survivor meeting
  • Twinning program

Jewish Life & Life Cycles:

  • Jewish Calendar (holidays, Shabbat and
    Havdallah)
  • Challah bake
  • Bris/Baby naming
  • Wedding - Mikvah visit
  • Death - visit to Paperman Funeral Home

Jewish Values:

  • Tzedakah (charity)
  • Forgiveness
  • Gratitude
  • Social responsibility
  • Freedom
  • Tikun Olam (repairing the world)
  • Independent/Group Mitzvah Project
  • Chanukah at Senior’s residence

Jewish Leadership:

  • Workshop with Federation CJA
  • Workshops with community leaders of
    varying fields - Where do I fit in?
  • Value of sisterhood, friendship and
    positive relationships
  • Auberge Shalom workshop
  • Female leaders past and present and
    the values they embody
  • Creating your own path as future Jewish
    leaders
  • Father-Daughter volunteer ex[erience

Bat Mitzvah Ceremony:

  • Culmination of learning with text, song, individual presentations
  • Certificate of completion

Parent Involvement

 Parents are responsible for the following roles.

  • Communication liaison(s) must be appointed to communicate between parents and CBT throughout the program.

In Preparation for the Ceremony:

  • Design, order, and distribute Kippas
  • Creating ceremony program
  • Twin frame layout
  • Family photo schedule
  • Allocate number of seats per family, assign seats in sanctuary, label seats night before
  • Saturday night set-up in synagogue (night before event: set up of guest Kippas, twinning table, programs,
  • Purchasing teacher gifts

During Ceremony

  • Presenting teacher gifts and speaking to guests

Program includes

24 weeks of learning, culminating with the ceremony in our sanctuary officiated by our Rabbi.

Father/daughter volunteer day

Teacher/Coordinator – Bonnie Leiner

Kippot

Music Director – Amiel Bender

Bat Mitzvah girl, family, and ceremony photos – PBL Photography (Ryan Blau)

Field trips

Set-up and clean-up of Sanctuary for ceremony, and Paradise Hall for Kiddish

Volunteer opportunities

Security

Mother/daughter Challah Bake

Charity donations


A Kiddish for GBM families and their guests will follow the ceremony.

Total cost per participant: $1600.00

Please note: A non-refundable deposit of $300.00 is required to confirm your daughter's participation. 

For more information, please email:

 Bonnie Leiner: gbm@bethtikvah.ca or  Sari Medicoff: sari@bethtikvah.ca

Tue, 8 July 2025 12 Tammuz 5785