When a child is old enough to leave home, how do we formally honor this important rite of passage that, more than a bar mitzvah and more than a high school graduation, marks entrance into adulthood?
In her article, Saying Goodbye 101, Jane Ullman, contributing editor to the Jewish Journal, shares her discoveries about how Judaism offers a number of leaving-home ceremonies to mark the sanctity of the occasion, some of which are noted by www.ritualwell.org.