@the source homepage Issue #38
Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel: The Ultimate Family Sourcebook,
by Deborah Rosenbloom and Judith Isaacson
Updated contact information will be sent
upon request by e-mail.

Double-Pronged Mitzvah

7: Gifts and More Gifts

6: Ben's Teffilin Tiyul

5: Bar Mitzvah Gibush

Bar Mitzvah in the Wake of Terrorism

4: The Magic Age of 13

3: Ben's Bar Mitzvah

2: Ben's Bar Mitzvah

Lila's Bat Mitzvah. 1

New Online Diary: Ben's Bar Mitzvah

Online Diary of a Bat Mitzvah Planning Parent

Post Bat Mitzvah Reflections

David Grossman
David Grossman


David Grossman is one of Israel's leading writers. He is the author of four award-winning, internationally acclaimed novels, two powerful journalistic accounts, as well as a number of children's books, and a play. In December 1998, he was decorated by the French government with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres.
See Under: Love, winner of the Valumbrosa Prize, Italy, and Prix Eliette Von Karajan, Salzburg, has been published in over a dozen countries. In addition to German and American theatrical productions, a film adaptation is currently in pre-production.
Grossman's other novels include The Smile of the Lamb (published in ten languages), The Book of Intimate Grammar, nominated as an Honor book of the American National Jewish Book Award, and The Zigzag Kid.
Grossman's groundbreaking nonfiction, The Yellow Wind, is a personal account of his three-month encounter with Palestinians prior to the outbreak of the Intifada, and Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel have been translated into 13 languages.
David Grossman was born in Jerusalem, where he lives with his wife and children.






















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