Moving Forward: Our Next Generation
Moving Traditions has just released a new strategic plan with an ambitious goal to double our impact on Jewish teens over the next three years – and we are asking you to join us....
Facing This New Reality Together
Last week, ironically under the façade of an originalist interpretation that honors history, the conservative justices of the United States Supreme Court spat upon legal precedent, upon decades and d...
Demystifying Teen Language Around Gender Resources
From our “Demystifying Teen Language on Gender” webinar, we offer the following resources for parents and educators for understanding teen language on gender: what it represents, and why it matter...
Jewish Reproductive Justice
Overview & Objectives: Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth to thrive through the pursuit of personal wellbeing (shleimut), caring relationships (hesed), and a Jewish and feminist vision of eq…
Planting and Replanting for Change
A Tu B’Shvat Ritual for Teens and the adults in their lives This year, Tu B’Shvat, the New Year of the trees begins at sundown on Sunday, February 5, 2023 and ends at nightfall on Monday, Februa…
Why Kumi? Why now?
Moving Traditions recently launched a new program called Kumi: An Anti-Oppression Teen Leadership Experience. We invite you to learn more about the inspiration, motivation, and goals of this new excit…
Hanukkah 2022
Talking with your teens is a gift. As our gift to you this Hanukkah, please enjoy these discussion starters and resources from Moving Traditions’ past year of programming. May the gift of conversati…
Light the Way: Parenting for Wellbeing – Resources
On December 14, 2022, psychologist Dr. Betsy Stone and Rabbi Tamara Cohen, Chief Program Officer at Moving Traditions, discussed key themes to help “parent for wellbeing.”...
Annual Report 2022
Moving Traditions recently released a new strategic plan, Moving Forward: Our Next Generation, which announced our ambitions to double our impact over the next three years. We invite you to read the p...
What is “Embodied Consent Education” and how can Jewish summer camps benefit from it?
Embodied consent takes its name from somatic practice –emphasizing the idea that consent is part of a mind-body connection where our bodies send signals to our minds and our minds are directing our ...
2023 Benefit Committee
Join us in honoring Tami Astorino and supporting Moving Traditions’ growth by participating as a Chai Benefit Committee Member. ...
I Don’t Want My Jewish Son to Listen to Kanye — But I Want Him to Decide That Himself
By Rabbi Tamara Cohen
November 10, 2022
Last weekend, as I was giving a ride to my son, a junior in high school, and one of his closest buddies to their first real high school party, his friend hooke...
Our Experience at Our Kol Koleinu Retreat
By Talia Polish and Rosie Smith, Kol Koleinu Fellows
November 11, 2022, Springboard
I scrolled through a list Jewish groups on my computer, skimming the screen. I paused when I saw Kol Koleinu. A Je...