Bnei Mitzva Project
Looking for a unique way to mark your Bar or Bat Mitzvah Celebration?
Give the gift of love and include Shalva’s children.
A celebration with added meaning
A Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a special time for all members of the family, as they celebrate a child taking his or her place in the Jewish community. Your child can make his/her celebration more meaningful by sharing it with Shalva’s children.
Learning how to become a giver is one of the most important and rewarding ways to step into adulthood. Seeking memorable ways to mark a Bar/Bat Mitzvah milestone and contribute to Israel at the same time, young people from around the world are choosing to become givers by helping raise money for Shalva in their communities.
Shalva greatly appreciates our many new, young ambassadors! When visiting Israel, participating youth are thrilled to see their names recognized on Shalva’s honorary Bnei Mitzvah Dedication Wall.
Your Role is Unique
Either share a portion of your gifts with the children of Shalva, or lead a Mitzvah Project to mark your special day. We’ve seen challah bakes, sport tournaments, bake sales, sponsored silences, bounces, walks and lots of other creative FUNdraising ideas.
Decide on a mitzvah project, set up a personal page and announce it to your family and friends.
In return, participants who donate $180 or more receive a beautiful certificate, suitable for display, which acknowledges their partnership with Shalva’s Bnei Mitzvah Project and for a minimum contribution of $1,800, participants are recognized on Shalva’s honorary Bnei Mitzvah Dedication Wall.
The B’nai Mitzvah Dedication Wall
Located inside the main dining hall on the third floor, the new dedication wall for B’nei Mitzvah is a dazzling work art that illuminates. Using the mixed mediums of glass fusing and natural wood sculpture, renowned artist, Barak Uranovsky depicts the image of a vibrant and flowing, three dimensional, open Torah scroll. The rainbow of emerging colors, rounded edges and wavy design was chosen to represent the universal value of acceptance of all and to celebrate the unique qualities that each person has to contribute to the world. Individually crafted in a glass fusing process that bonds tainted metal enamel and partially melted glass in an electric kiln at high temperatures, each 1/4 inch thick plaque reveals its own unique shade of color. The process of glass fusing is in itself a metaphor of transformation that relates both to the transition of coming of age and to the challenging journey of Shalva’s children as they learn to live and thrive beyond their disabilities.
Visiting Israel for your Bar/Bat Mitzvah? Come dance with us!
You and your family can celebrate with the children of Shalva as your guests of honor. Arrive to a buzzing dance floor and move on to a heart-warming festive meal and/or a Mitzvah Project.
From our experience, this is something that remains forever in everyone’s memories.
Whatever you choose to focus on, you will make a difference in the lives of our children.
