Navigating Challenges Together

Our teens are navigating a lot. They are facing a dual burden – all of the trials and tribulations that come with adolescence are compounded by the rising antisemitism they are encountering in schoo...

Observing Transgender Awareness Week

By Shuli Karkowsky As we step out of Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19), I find myself thinking about how it is always important to mark this week – and how its significance rose this year …

After the War: Prayers for This Moment

To help Jewish youth process the ceasefire deal in Gaza and the hostage release, Moving Traditions offers you this excerpt of a new special edition curriculum. If you are a partnering educator, access…

A New Approach to Raising Jewish Teens

By Shuli Karkowsky and Elizabeth Mandel for Hadassah Magazine | We are Jewish feminist leaders dedicated to supporting the emotional development of Jewish teens, helping them grow into their fullest s...

Yahrzeit: Remembering October 7th

To help Jewish youth process the upcoming two-year anniversary of October 7, Moving Traditions has released a new curricular session to help teens mark the moment. We are continuing to develop new mat…

Tashlich with Teens

Tashlich is a High Holiday ritual of throwing into a river breadcrumbs (or an ecologically friendly alternative, such as rice paper), as a symbolic casting out of our misdeeds from the past year....

Resources from Parenting Anxious Teens

On Sept. 11, Moving Traditions hosted Parenting Anxious Teens: Jewish Approaches to Resilience, a webinar for parents of Jewish youth. Together with a panel of experts, we discussed strategies parents…