JCP offers a personalized experience for each individual family seeking a B’nai Mitzvah. We perform ceremonies all over New York City in effort to make your child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah special and personal for each family.
Preparing for B’nai Mitzvah
Preparation for a JCP B’nai Mitzvah ceremony puts the learner in the driver’s seat of their Jewish journey. Seminars and schedule flexibility give 6th, 7th, and 8th grade learners a sense of ownership over their B’nai Mitzvah experience. Social and meaningful engagement with their cohort is balanced with one-on-one learning sessions that will prepare each learner in a personalized environment, suited to their learning preferences and needs.
Core Components of a JCP B’nai Mitzvah Journey
• Weekly one-on-one tutoring
• Torah study with JCP’s Rabbi
• Relevant and meaningful Jewish learning with peers
• An opportunity to help plan and participate in community service activities (which constitutes a group Mitzvah Project)
Date Selection for B’nai Mitzvah
If you are interested in scheduling a Bar or Bat Mitzvah for your child, please email reach out to Yaffa Muhlbaum at ymuhlbaum@jcpdowntown.org.
Venues for B’nai Mitzvah
You can host your B’nai Mitzvah ceremony in a variety of venues in New York City, whether they be in downtown Manhattan, Brooklyn, or here at JCP! Some families choose to have the ceremony and the party take place in the same venue. Smaller ceremonies have taken place at JCP (Pricing of JCP lobby: $500 for members of JCP, $1,000 for non-members) and in community members’ living rooms. Larger ceremonies take place in restaurants, hotels, event spaces, and local sanctuaries all over New York City.
Fees and Policies
The total fee for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah is $5000, with a $2500 deposit when reserving the date. Six months prior to the date, the remaining $2500 will be invoiced.
Cancellation Policy
We give every family a great deal of choice in selecting the B’nai Mitzvah date. Once you select a date and pay the deposit, the agreed-upon date and time is reserved for your child’s B’nai Mitzvah ceremony. If you would like to change your ceremony date and the ceremony is more than a year away, you can be in touch with JCP’s Rabbi and Jewish Life Coordinator, and we will try our best to accommodate your new date preference (without any guarantees). If the ceremony is a year away (or less than a year away) we will not be able to accommodate any date changes.
