Zoom-Mitzvah 101: A Guide
By Sarah M. Seltzer, Lilith Magazine
April 26, 2021
If you’re one of the many Jewish parents, clergy, or educators trying to reimagine bar or bat mitzvah celebration on a screen, Moving Tradition...
New guide offers tips for ‘Zoom mitzvahs’
By Amanda Koehn, Lifestyles Magazine Editor, Cleveland Jewish News
May 26, 2021
Moving Traditions, an organization to inspire Jewish youth toward self-discovery and learning, early this year released...
Moving Traditions Founder and CEO to Step Down Next Year
By Andy Gotlieb, Jewish Exponent
May 20, 2021
Moving Traditions co-founder and CEO Deborah Meyer announced that she is stepping down at the end of March 2022.
“Together, for more than two decades,...
Poems for Reflecting on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Choose one or more of the following poems to read or listen to together and discuss. As you will see these poems are intended to make space for emotions and empathy, not to spur a political discu…
Navigating Life: Helping teens build resilience, challenge assumptions, and develop healthy relationships
Join Moving Traditions on May 13 as we explore ways in which we can help teens become more resilient by thinking critically about the cultural messages they receive and by developing strong, healthy f...
Camp Training 2021
Moving Traditions held an online train-the-trainer institute on May 20, 2021 for senior camp professionals and their supervisory team....
Can We Hug Now? Returning to Touch in Jewish Spaces
By Rabbi Daniel Brenner, eJewish Philanthropy
How will a year plus of touch depravation change the way adolescents and young adults interact in large groups of their peers? What are the possible dan...
Acknowledging and Releasing the Burdens: An Old/ New Ritual for Breaking the Middle Matzah
Our 2021 seder resource offers you—and others around your table or online—the opportunity to consider the weight of the challenges you have been carrying over the past year, and the burdens should...
Zoom-mitzvahs moving the bar on tradition – comment
By Howard Blas, Jerusalem Post
One year ago, no one had ever heard of a Zoom bar or bat mitzvah. They now rival Zoom weddings, baby namings, brisses, funerals and shivas as the most popular onli...
Introduction to Moving Traditions – An Informational Webinar
Join Moving Traditions for one of our interactive webinars for educators and clergy where you can experience our curriculum firsthand and learn about our whole approach....