Mental Health Awareness Month Resources
Resource topics: At Moving Traditions, we seek to enhance teens’ sense of connection—to themselves, to their peers, to mentor adults, and to their Jewish community—as the same studies that ident…
Chai Benefit 2023
At our 2023 Chai Benefit, we celebrated 18 years of impact on Jewish youth and honored the incredible Tami Astorino for all the ways she's helped Moving Traditions grow since the beginning....
Stand With Transgender Teens
By Kerrick Goodman-Lucker
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
This year for Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, some of us felt a little too visible.
It felt like all eyes are on our trans an...
The life-changing magic of washing your hands (on Passover)
By Rabbi Daniel Brenner for Jewish Telegraphic Agency
(JTA) — At the height of the pandemic, I remember maddeningly washing, scrubbing and antibacterial-spritzing my hands in a bathroom along ...
Teen Leadership Opportunities Promotional Toolkit
On March 28, Moving Traditions launched applications for the 2023-24 cohorts of two teen leadership opportunities: the Meyer-Gottesman Kol Koleinu Teen Feminist Fellowship and Kumi: An Anti-Oppression…
Teen Leadership Opportunities
We are excited to announce two 2023-24 leadership opportunities for Jewish teens now accepting applications: Both programs are for Jewish teens in 10th-12th grade who are interested in social action t…
The Same, Yet Different at Passover
I love how the calendar of Jewish holidays lends structure to my year. Passover epitomizes this more than any other holiday – replete with strong childhood memories; ritual before, during, and after...
Chai Benefit Moving Traditions
Join us to celebrate our “Chai” anniversary and Tami Astorino’s unparalleled passion and commitment to the work of Moving Traditions as, together, we help Jewish youth thrive. chai benefit...
Covenant Foundation Grants: Kulam
How does the Kulam program differ from other Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah programming? Kulam is a post-b-mitzvah education program for Hebrew High School settings, which aims to continue the successful...
White House Dispatch
By Shuli Karkowsky, Moving Traditions’ CEO I am writing this email on the train home from the White House, where I joined a group of incredible leaders at the first-ever Jewish Women’s Forum a…