At 53, I am a woman – a midlife Bat Mitzvah journey

by Ilana DeBare

Last month I became a woman.

Four years after my daughter did.

No, this isn’t one of those “I’m my own Grampa” riddles, even though it may sound that way. It’s the story of how I became a midlife Bat Mitzvah at the age of 53, four years after my daughter went through the ritual at the more common age of 13. […]