Set the tone for your occasion and share your ideas about your child’s place in our heritage with your Bar or Bat Mitzvah invitations and save-the-date announcements.
Choose to represent this milestone with religious symbols of the Jewish faith, scenes of Israel, or a pleasing contemporary design. Use a bit of Hebrew or design the invitation in two languages. Share your child’s day of accomplishment and pride with another child, perhaps through twinning with a child in a faraway Jewish community, or maybe even a child in Israel, and design the announcement to recognize the specialness of your B’nei Mitzvah.
A nice touch is to use invitations made in Israel, or invitations made from recycled paper, or even invitations “branded” by a charity which indicates a special donation has been made with each invitation sent. A popular option is to let your guests know that you’re making a donation in their honor on your invitations. Many charities and philanthropic organizations will allow you to use their logo to let your guests know you are supporting the good work they do, truly a mitzvah.
The JNF, The Jewish National Fund, is a popular charity choice for families who wish to express their commitment to Israel on their invitations. Planting a single tree – or a whole forest – in northern Israel is a terrific way to help rebuild the 1,500 acres of forests and 2,500 acres of grazing lands that have been devastated by war and natural disaster. One million trees now need to be replanted.
Leket, Israel’s National Food Bank, is another organization which will help you direct your tzedakah toward their good works. Supplying prepared sandwiches to impoverished school children, and redistributing hundreds of pounds of prepared food to partner agencies which assist the poor and other at-risk populations including the invalid-elderly throughout Israel, Leket provides immediate assistance to the hungry.
We can recommend some interesting ideas for a save-the-date notice. Have you considered a magnet? Or a box of mints wrapped in your party information? We’ve seen some terrific ways to let your friends and family know about your Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah in Israel and get them excited about joining you on your special adventure. Note, too, that these save the date teasers can be sent up to a year prior to your event.
Make your invitations special with a unique stamp. Third party sites can now help you design US postage stamps approved by the USPS. If you haven’t seen a custom-designed postage stamp yet, you really should check it out. Prefer for your guests to receive an invitation for your Bat or Bar Mitzvah in Israel mailed from Israel? Speak with IsraelExperts about arranging this nice touch.