Guiding Multifaith Families in Jewish Grief Rituals
This is a lesson for adult learners and helps mutlifaith families navigate death Jewishly with their children.
About this Lesson
According to the 2020 Pew Study roughly 2/3 of married Jewish adults have a non-Jewish partner. The non-Jewish parent are ones that sign their children up for school, come to the bet mitzvah parent meetings, and bring their children to family holiday programs. These numbers are growing, and more and more of our communities will be made up of multifaith families. Our families are choosing to raise their kids Jewish. This lesson focuses on death and how to help Jewish kids navigate Jewish rituals for death and dying.
This session was created and added to our pre-exisiting class called Jewish Tapas - meant to be a “taste” of Judaism for non-Jewish partners raising Jewish children. Here are the other sessions.
Session 1: Holidays and Jewish Calendar
Session 2: Life Cycle with emphasis on Bet Mitzvah
Session 3: Life Cycle part 2 with emphasis on death and dying
Session 4: Your role in creating a Jewish home
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