Rites of Passage

Key Issues

Titles

Chapters

• Adultery and divorce
• Bar/Bat Mitzvah
• Bar/Bat Mitzvah (son/daughter of the commandment)
• Bat Chayil
• Birth and Brit Milah
• Birth rites (Brit Milah) and the nurture of the young
• Birth: Brit Milah; and the naming of girls
• Birth: naming, brit milah (circumcision) - roles of the father, mohel and sandek
• Changing attitudes in the United Kingdom to cohabitation and marriage
• Changing attitudes to divorce in the United Kingdom
• Changing attitudes to homosexuality in the United Kingdom
• Children's duties to parents
• Coming of age: bar/bat mitzvah, bat chayil - roles of the candidate, rabbi, cantor, parents
• Death and mourning
• Death: burial
• Death: care for the dying
• Death: chevra kaddisha
• Death: funeral rites
• Death: mourning (four stages, kaddish and yahrzeit)
• Death: respect for the body
• Death:mourning rites and yahrzeit
• Dietary Laws
• Dietary laws: kashrut (kosher; treifa; parve foods)
• Dietary laws: meat and milk
• Dietary laws: shechita
• Differences among Jews in their attitudes to sex outside marriage (pre-marital sex, promiscuity and adultery), including the reasons for the attitudes
• dress codes for men and women
• Dress: distinctive appearance and styles of clothing (Hasidim)
• education of children
• funeral rites
• How religious upbringing in a Jewish family and community can lead to or support belief in the Almighty
• Initiation: Bar and Bat Mitzvah
• Initiation: Bar Mitzvah
• Initiation: Bat Mitzvah/Bat Chayil
• Initiation: Brit Milah
• Jewish attitudes to adultery
• Jewish attitudes to birth control
• Jewish attitudes to divorce
• Jewish attitudes to family life: the roles, rights and duties of children
• Jewish attitudes to family life: the roles, rights and duties of men
• Jewish attitudes to family life: the roles, rights and duties of women
• Jewish attitudes to homosexuality
• Jewish attitudes to homosexuality, including the reasons for the attitudes
• Jewish attitudes to marriage to non-Jews
• Jewish attitudes to pre-marital sex
• Jewish attitudes to purpose of sex
• Jewish attitudes to remarriage
• Jewish attitudes to separation
• Jewish attitudes to the nature and purpose of marriage
• Jewish beliefs about the ethics of divorce
• Jewish funeral rites and mourning customs, and the ways in which these reflect belief and aim to support the bereaved.
• Jewish marriage ceremonies, and the ways in which these reflect and emphasise Jewish teaching about marriage
• Justice, mercy and humility
• kashrut
• Kashrut (dietary laws)
• Kosher rules for dress (Shatnez), money and objects
• Living in a Jewish home with particular reference to attitudes to dress
• Living in a Jewish home with particular reference to kosher food
• Living in a Jewish home with particular reference to the mezuzah
• Living in a Jewish home with particular reference to the mikveh
• Man and woman made for each other
• Marriage
• Marriage and divorce
• Marriage is necessary to bring children into world
• Marriage vows; ketubah
• marriage, fidelity, divorce
• Marriage: divorce
• Marriage: features of the ceremony, huppah, ketubah
• Marriage: kiddushin and huppah, ketubah
• Marriage: mikveh
• mourning rituals
• observance in the home: blessings
• observance in the home: grace after meals
• observance in the home: kosher food
• observance in the home: mezuzah
• parent/child relationships
• religious dress: kippah/yamulkah/capel, tzizit
• religious dress: tallit, tefillin
• Responsibility for one's own actions
• reward and punishment
• The changing nature of family life (nuclear family, extended family, re-constituted family) in the United Kingdom. Jewish teachings on family life and its importance
• The growth of equal rights for women in the United Kingdom
• The home
• The importance of the family
• the marriage ceremony (Kiddushin)
• The practice and significance of bar mitzvah
• The practice and significance of bat chayil (Siddur)
• The practice and significance of bat mitzvah
• The practice and significance of naming girls
• The practice and significance of rituals associated with death and mourning (chevra kaddisha, shiva, kaddish)
• The purposes of marriage in Judaism including the main features of a Jewish marriage ceremony (kiddushin, ketubah, huppah)
• the role of the family
• The role of women equal and different
• The role of women in Jewish society
• The roles of men and women within a Jewish family
• The use of food and fasting by Jews as a response to God
• vegetarianism