On Thursday, October 15, Moving Traditions hosted Israel Campus Conflict: Radically Reasonable Watch Party & Teen Panel, a webinar for parents of Jewish youth.
Thank you to our featured speakers and moderator:
- Eric Weil and Meshakai Wolf, creators of Radically Reasonable
- Rebecca Ezersky, Senior Manager of Kumi Justice Retreats and former Assistant Director of Jewish Life at Duke University
- Bridget Siegel-Fultz, Jewish educator at Germantown Jewish Center
- Keren Glicksman, jGirls+ alum, recent SUNY Binghamton graduate, and current Producer for WCA Media
- Rabbi Daniel Brenner, VP of Education for Moving Traditions (moderator)
About the “Radically Reasonable” Documentary
Radically Reasonable is a new documentary about the need for constructive dialogue around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campus and beyond. Filmed in 2024 and 2025 amid rising post–October 7 antisemitism and Islamophobia at colleges and universities, it follows students, educators, activists, and emerging leaders as they navigate deeply held differences, shared values, and the challenge of staying in conversation.
Shot in New York City, Austin, and Washington, D.C., with virtual participants in San Diego, South Carolina, Haifa, and Jerusalem, the film looks at what it calls the conflict around the conflict: the polarization that can make dialogue feel impossible. Through campus stories and hard-earned insights from people across generations, Radically Reasonable makes the case that engaging multiple perspectives is essential to building more connected communities and lasting coexistence.
Watch the trailer and learn more.
Radically Reasonable Discussion guide:
After watching the film, we invite you to use this guide to lead conversations with the teens in your life.
Resources from Moving Traditions
College Expectations and Norms
This worksheet has been adapted from Moving Traditions’ Curricular Programs.
The life stage of emerging adulthood (approximately ages 17-25) is a period marked by great transition to independence and novel life possibilities, which can be responsible for a degree of instability.
Emerging adults show a more successful transition to college when they have a clearer sense of their identity, goals, and expectations. Thus, this lesson aims to use self-reflection, planning, and discussion to reduce transitional instability and increase teens’ confidence about their impending college experience.
Use this worksheet to start a dialogue with the teen in your life as they look ahead to college.
Rethinking Your College Gameplan
For students that are thinking about college, there are a new set of factors influencing college decisions — from rising antisemitism and a polarized environment around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to new state laws restricting reproductive rights and trans health care.
Explore the Moving Traditions webinar, Rethinking Your College Gameplan, to prepare parents and educators of Jewish teens for this life transition.
Israel at Your Kitchen Table
Moving Traditions’ webinar, Israel at Your Kitchen Table: Strategies for Talking with Teens prepares parents and teens to keep talking even as we may find ourselves with very different sources of information, peer groups, and possible responses to the ongoing war in Israel.
In this webinar, a panel of experts talk about the psychology behind how teens process the news, strategies to foster discussion when you agree and when you don’t, and how to set boundaries for discourse and root those boundaries in love.
Yahrzeit: Remembering October 7
To help Jewish youth process the anniversary of October 7, Moving Traditions offers, Yahrzeit: Remembering Oct 7, a resource to help parents and teens mark the moment.
We invite you to use this to guide a conversation with your family, perhaps as you sit down for a meal together.
After the War: Prayers for This Moment
Moving Traditions created After the War: Prayers for This Moment, a new resource to help teens and parents contextualize this moment.
Additional Resources
What Do People Mean When They Say “Zionism” — a resource from the Collaborative for Applied Studies of Jewish Education
This issue of the CASJE Research Digest focuses on the term “Zionism”—a concept that has become increasingly prominent in public discourse across media, politics, and campus life, particularly in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks and the subsequent war in Gaza.
Criticism of Israel and Antisemitism: How to Tell Where One Ends and the Other Begins — a resource from T’ruah
In the wake of Hamas’s brutal attacks on October 7, and Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza, T’ruah shares insights for navigating complex ethics and heated rhetoric.