Mothers, Daughters and Torah (Jewish Week 11/03/2003)
New Drisha program puts a generational twist on the rite of passage.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen - Staff Writer

When Geri Gindea’s older daughter, Arielle, who is now 14, was getting ready to become a bat mitzvah, they took an adult education class together at a Great Neck synagogue. Arielle was the only young person in the class, in which they studied the first book of the Bible once a week for six weeks. “We enjoyed it, but it wasn’t focused on mother-daughter, and didn’t cater to our particular needs,” said Gindea, an Internet executive.

Now her younger daughter, Sophie, has just turned 11. They’ll soon participate in a new specially designed, mother-daughter class at Drisha, the center for Jewish women’s Torah study on the Upper West Side.

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