If your child was born between September 2000 and August 2001, please complete our online scheduling survey (click here to get started) by Wednesday, September 28, 2011. This will help us schedule your mitzvah for the Hebrew year of 5774, from September 2013 through August 2014.
The B’nai Mitzvah scheduling process typically begins during your child's 5th grade year, roughly two years in advance of the start of the school year in which your child will celebrate his Bar or her Bat Mitzvah. B’nai Mitzvah at JRC are scheduled to correspond with the Jewish calendar and the school year.
We are blessed with many wonderful students at JRC. However, scheduling all the B’nai Mitzvah dates is quite complex and requires a great deal of information. In order to get things started, we ask that you do the following :
- Read this page and the JRC Board Policies regarding B’nai Mitzvah carefully.
- Complete our online scheduling survey by the deadline noted above.
Scheduling will not begin until forms have been received from the entire class. Joan Dumser, JRC’s B’nai Mitzvah Coordinator, will speak with each family individually during the scheduling process. It then takes several weeks to assemble a tentative schedule and coordinate congregational calendars before we formalize dates. This means that families that don’t complete the online scheduling survey by September 28th risk delaying the process for the entire class.
Typically, B’nai Mitzvah dates are scheduled as close to the child’s thirteenth birthday as class size, distribution of birthdays, Jewish holidays, and the JRC schedule permit. Please note that B’nai Mitzvah are not scheduled on Friday evenings, Saturday afternoons, Mondays, or Thursdays, or during the months of July and August. Scheduling preferences will be given to families requesting a specific shared date or an alternative date. While we do our best to accommodate each family, please keep in mind that we may not be able to meet all specific scheduling requests.
If you have any questions about the scheduling process, please feel free to contact us at bnaimitzvah@jrc-evanston.org. Thank you for your cooperation, and please complete and submit the scheduling survey by September 28, 2011.
L'Shalom,
Joan E. Dumser
Volunteer B'nai Mitzvah Coordinator
Jill Persin
Assistant Executive Director
