Whether you are new to Judaism, deeply engaged, or returning with curiosity and hope after a long absence, Living Jewish Life Cycle will inspire and challenge you to recapture the spiritual meaning in Judaism's major life cycle moments. Rich with step-by-step exercises and practices for all ages, you will be reacquainted with existing rituals and empowered to create new ones customized to your own unique experiences and perspectives.

You will reconnect with the significance in the Jewish calendar as you explore new ways to honor weddings, welcome babies, and cope with mid-life matters, death, divorce, miscarriage and mourning. You will also learn earth-friendly approaches to commemorating your special celebrations.

Living Jewish Life Cycle will ground you in both traditions and new pathways to healthy spiritual innovation, no matter what your passion.

"Goldie Milgram is a wise woman: She knows her history and tradition; she understands diversity and in-group politics. Add her innate kindness, respect, pragmatism and ritual creativity, and you have a design for contemporary sacred living."
--Blu Greenberg, author, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household

Rabbi Goldie Milgram is founder and executive director of ReclaimingJudaism.org, offering seminars and Web-based resources on the application of Jewish spiritual practice for spiritual seekers and teachers. Passionate about bringing spirituality back into Jewish life, she is well known for over thirty years of innovations in Jewish life―in contexts as diverse as Esalen, Elat Chayyim, Princeton University and Bard College, the United Jewish Communities, Hadassah Foundation, and in the training of rabbis and cantors for almost seven years as dean at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York City. She is also author of Living Jewish Life Cycle: How to Create Meaningful Jewish Rites of Passage at Every Stage of Life; Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days and Shabbat; Meaning and Mitzvah: Daily Practices for Reclaiming Judaism through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew, Mitzvot and Peoplehood (both Jewish Lights); and Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage.