Mitzvah Day International Day around the world. Though based within the UK's Jewish Community, Mitzvah Day traditionally marks the first day of UK National Inter Faith Week, and as a result has expanded to include participants from other faith communities as well. 'Mitzvah' is the Hebrew biblical term for 'deed' or 'commandment', which has come to mean 'good deed' or 'charitable act' in contemporary English. The 2017 date is November 19. Mitzvah Day International was founded by Laura Marks in 2005, who, upon returning to her native UK from a period spent in Los Angeles, decided to bring the 'Mitzvah Day' concept she
Coming of Age: Adult Bat Mitzvah Coming of Age: Adult Bat Mitzvah Coming of Age: Adult Bat Mitzvah, is a documentary produced in 1989 and directed by Bonnie Burt. Bat mitzvahs are not only for pre-teens anymore. Exploring women’s place in Judaism, "Coming of age: Adult Bat Mitzvah" takes a candid look at this twist on a relatively new tradition and what it says about the push for equality of the sexes in synagogue life. "Coming of Age" sits down with a group of women, aged 32 to 83, from different walks of life, to find out why, after all these years, they’ve decided to learn