Adult Brit Mitzvah Cohort

Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation’s Adult Brit* Mitzvah Cohort 2025-2026

For anyone who has a different relationship with Judaism than they did at age 13

Engage your Adult Jewish identity with this 1 year program culminating in a special Shabbat Brit Mitzvah ritual on November 21, 2026

Our JRC Adult Brit Mitzvah program combines group study, hevruta/partner learning, Torah Trope, Spiritual Autobiography, and topics such as Liturgy and Prayer, God and Theology, Reconstructionism, Bodies, Eating and Daily Living, Shabbat, Halacha and Traditions, Tikkun Olam, Gender and Identities, the Jewish Library, and Jewish History.

This program is for you if you:
Have a different relationship to Judaism now than you did when you were a child
Never became bar/bat mitzvah as a teen or are looking for a different experience
Want to deepen your knowledge, skills and engagement with Jewish traditions
Have been part of a Jewish community for a while, but are exploring formal conversion and learning

Faculty:
Rabbi Rachel Weiss, and Cantor Howard Friedland

*Why Brit and not Bnai? Bnai/Bat/Bar Mitzvah literally translates to “Children/Child of the Commandments/Values” and is a gendered term. “Brit Mitzvah” literally translates to “entering a covenant of Jewish Values” and is a non-gendered term. As this is a program for adults, we use this more inclusive language which better represents our values and our relationship to Judaism.