Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones Book

Volume 1 covers the entire spectrum of life's passages, from ceremonies around childbirth to new perspectives on aging. Sharing traditional concepts and innovative approaches, practical insights, and their own stories, the authors invite the reader to be their partner. Topics covered include childbirth, welcoming children into name and covenant, marriage, singlehood, conversion, parenting, divorce, midlife, aging, death and mourning, and more.

Complete with an afterword guide to creating rituals, this landmark volume gives women a resource for recognizing and marking their own life passages and personal milestones.

"Nothing is missing from this marvelous collection....Lifecycles is a gift to the Jewish woman in America." --Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author of Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

"A unique compendium of helpful, meaningful, and certainly thought-provoking material.... Highly recommended." --Library Journal