Jewtor – Online Bar/Bat Mitzvah Tutoring, Hebrew Tutoring, Torah and Haftarah Tutor Reviews

My daughters both did tutoring for their bat mitzvah with Bettina. They really enjoyed learning Hebrew and Torah with her. She is amazingly supportive, patient and kind. My older daughter just asked to go back to lessons because she enjoyed them so much. I would highly recommend Bettina to anyone wanting to learn Hebrew.

Bettina is a really fantastic teacher. She is warm, patient, has a great sense of humor, and is very supportive. She's been working with me on learning to read Hebrew as an adult, and she has really made the material accessible. She has great recommendations on what materials to use, and she's very flexible about working around my schedule. She's also fairly priced. I have genuinely enjoyed working with her, and I am getting real results. I cannot recommend her strongly enough.

Thank you, Jewtor! Bettina is patient, encouraging, flexible and experienced! In just a few months, meeting virtually using google meets plus a readily available primer, I went from feeling lost and overwhelmed to being able to read Hebrew. I successfully completed my adult bat mitzvah along side my son. Enthusiastically recommend!

Bettina was central to my adult B'Mitzvah. I continue to study Hebrew language with her. She is patient and anticipates my difficulties. She is teaching me language and the multiple layers of meaning in Hebrew and Torah. It is a total joy to learn with Bettina.

Bettina is a patient and knowledgeable teacher. She made sure I was prepared to read Torah, Haftarah, and to lead musaf for my bat mitzvah many years ago, and I am now a seasoned Torah reader and lay leader at my own synagogue.

I started learning to read and speak Hebrew with Bettina about 8 months ago. Bettina is a great teacher, encourages me, and I enjoy my online classes with her. In June I was in Israel and was able to read many signs, ask simple questions and order in a restaurant. I was more confident to speak than in previous trips. Family and friends are impressed that I've undertaken this project. Hoping to improve and learn more each week. Thanks, Bettina.

Myself and my son worked with Bettina for a few months to prepare for their Bar Mitzvah's. Bettina was very patient with son and went at a pace that really allowed for him to learn his material. She did a fantastic job in making sure we understood and learned all the trope in our Torah portions. She is such a great tutor and would highly recommend her to anyone preparing for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

Bettina helped my son prepare for his bar mitzvah. She is very patient, very knowledgeable, and he enjoyed his lessons very much. He didn't know any Hebrew at all going in, and by the end he was confidently reading portions from the haggadah on Passover. Recommend Bettina 1000%, she is fantastic and we appreciate her very much!

Bettina helped me prepare for my upcoming Adult Bat Mitzvah. I had tried to do it myself before and failed, because Hebrew was so overwhelming to me. After working with Bettina, I became the best student in my B'nei Mitzvah class. She is very patient and understanding. I now enjoy practicing Hebrew! I feel like I know what I am doing in services. I would recommend her to anyone, she is a great teacher.

I highly recommend Jewtor as a bar mitzvah tutor. She did such an amazing job teaching my son his parasha and haftorah that he was confident and poised on his big day and was able to leyn without a mistake. Not only that but my son really enjoyed working with her and told me that he was very sad when his lessons ended.

Our son was phenomenal! Thank you so much Bettina for the patience, wisdom, passion and love you put into teaching! Bettina was amazing and our son was ready for what lay ahead thanks to her tutoring. We had our son’s Bar Mitzvah scheduled for November 2021 in Jerusalem but then COVID restrictions struck hard. We had to cancel our trip and our son had to learn a new Torah portion. He didn’t complain and took the bull by the horns! Bettina was there every step of the way and helped him get a new parsha ready. Fast forward to last month, November 2022 in Jerusalem, our son was superb, and we couldn’t be prouder!!! We are so grateful we found Bettina and we highly recommend her to anyone considering a Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutor. All the best!

Bettina tutored me for my adult bar mitzvah this year and I was 100% prepared. Working with Bettina is fun and she makes learning Hebrew approachable and productive. Her teaching style is relaxed yet focused and I really enjoyed the entire process. I’m continuing to work with Bettina to learn conversational Hebrew and it’s equally enjoyable. I enthusiastically recommend Bettina to anyone looking to prepare for their bar/bat mitzvahs as well as more generally learning to read Hebrew and Torah.

For various and sundry reasons, including the fact that my son’s Hebrew reading was not very fluent, he got started late working on his maftir and haftarah for his bar mitzvah. I went looking online for a tutor and found Bettina. Instead of an hour once a week, she kindly agreed to two half hour sessions a week, which was more in line with my son’s attention span. She got his Hebrew reading up to speed and despite our initial plans for him to only do half of the haftarah, she insisted he was capable of more and she was right. He now knows his entire maftir and haftarah which is due in large part to her patience as well as her pushing for us not to underestimate him. I would like to thank her publicly here and would highly recommend her to anyone who needs tutoring.

She is the best; a very patient teacher. If you are a slow language learner, she can help you! I am an American, raised WASP (So zero knowledge starting), thick southern accent, attention deficit disorder AND I have snow vision (Neurological brain defect affecting sight.) If she has the patience to work with me, she can help anybody! Her lessons are always a joy and a break from monotony of day to day life.

As a rabbi, I'm so grateful to Jewtor. Bettina's students who have celebrated their bar/bat mitzvah with me have been extremely well prepared. Even more important, they have reported to me that their Hebrew tutoring experience with her was fun and valuable. I'm glad to work together with Jewtor, helping so many Jewish teens celebrate their bar/bat mitzvah.

Bettina is terrific! She worked with our son during Covid to get him ready for his bar mitzvah, which we finally held in person a few weeks ago. This may say it all: At one point during the service, I turned to my husband and said "Who is that kid?" He read Torah so incredibly, we had no idea! Bettina is kind, compassionate, and really knows how to get a child prepared for this important life celebration. She helped him understand many aspects of Judaism from the history to spiritual traditions. And all the while teaching him to read and speak Hebrew. Bettina has got bar mitzvah prep down pat! And we will definitely miss her. But couldn't have asked for a better tutor.

We have entrusted our son’s religious instruction including Hebrew lessons with Bettina. It is a decision we have never regretted and encourage others to put their trust in her. Her teaching style is very nurturing and encouraging which has helped to build my son’s confidence in reading Hebrew. Religion is a very personal path and we are happy that Bettina has helped our son on this path. Our son recently became a Bar-Mitzvah with the help of Bettina. Her extensive knowledge and teaching style has made this a very meaningful experience for our son. We hope that she is given the opportunity to reach many more youth looking to explore their Jewish path.

My son is taking Hebrew lessons. Bettina is very calm and helpful and provides very clear explanations to questions that are asked. My son loves his lessons, which he takes remotely via Google Hangout.

Before I started my lessons with Bettina the cantilation marks  were something mysterious for me and impossible to comprehend. Bettina is a wonderful teacher and after working with her for a few months all those inigmatic signs began to make sense and reveal their secrets. Not to mention that Bettina is very musical,  creative and smart. If you want to be motivated and look forward to each lesson I would definitely recommend Bettina! Learning to chant Thora with Bettina is fun!

Scheduling traditional Hebrew classes for our son's busy schedule was challenging. We knew that we wanted to do our son's bar mitzvah in Israel, so it didn't make any sense to sign him up at our synagogue's Sunday school, which he would have missed most of the classes anyway. Finding Bettina changed everything. We provided her what the Rabbi in Israel needed for our son to work on, and she offered her suggestions, which was so helpful. Due to COVID, we had to postpone our trip to Israel; however, we continue to work with Bettina. Our son is now learning modern Hebrew with Bettina, and our daughter has started working on her bat mitzvah. We are still unsure when we can have their bar/bat mitzvahs, but knowing that Bettina is working with both kids until that time comes is comforting. Our daughter is dyslexic, and we knew that learning Hebrew would be a challenge for her. Despite our daughter's challenges, Bettina has helped her overcome some of the stress of learning a new lanuage. We highly recommend Bettina!