At Moving Traditions, a space for teens to confront today’s issues

By Shana Goldberg, Intermountain Jewish News, September 26, 2019

At Moving Traditions, not all those leading the educational programs are professional Jewish educators. Rabbis, cant...

By Shana Goldberg, Intermountain Jewish News, September 26, 2019

At Moving Traditions, not all those leading the educational programs are professional Jewish educators. Rabbis, cantors and Hebrew school teachers, of course, but they make up only part of the ranks. So do artists, social workers and young adults.

One of the latter is Tal Arnold, 24, who is leading a Shevet group for teen boys at Congregation Beth Evergreen. (Moving Traditions also has groups for girls, “Rosh Hodesh,” and nonbinary teens, “Tzelem.”)

Arnold is Moving Traditions’ first second-generation group leader. His parents, Rabbi Jamie and Marti Arnold, led Shevet and Rosh Hodesh groups, respectively.