Blog - Moving Traditions

Boys and Sex: Webinar for Parents and Teen Boys with Peggy Orenstein

A panel discussion with New York Times bestselling author, Peggy Orenstein, Rabbi Daniel Brenner, Shevet Group Leader David Lieberman, and former Shevet participant Isaac Santelli....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
April 6, 2020

How to Have a Kid-Friendly, Meaningful Virtual Seder

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The holiday is about resilience. Now’s the time to show it. If you’re trying to figure out how to balance Passover with teaching grandma how to use Zoom, you’re not alone. Rabbi Tamara Cohen of...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
April 6, 2020

A Meditation for Educators for Passover

by Jen Anolik I invite you all to close your eyes if you’re comfortable. Take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Give your mind permission to think whatever it wants to …

Sarah Fox
April 3, 2020

#SederStory

Telling the story at #Passover of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery has inspired generations to work for a better world. This Passover, in this challenging time, we invite you to download our ...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
April 2, 2020

Passover and the “Multi-Generational Self”

So much about Passover is likely to be different this year for most of us—and yet, this fundamental idea will be exactly the same. We are commanded to tell our children and to remind ourselves of wh...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 31, 2020

COVID-19: Moving Traditions is With You

Moving Traditions has resources for you and your community during this extraordinary time....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 26, 2020

Adapting Online Curriculum: A Poem & A Meditation

And they assembled And Moses said dayam: enough. Enough, enough....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 26, 2020

This Passover, Share Your Story and Inspire Resilience

Youth who know more family stories—including about overcoming challenges—show higher well-being, with higher self-esteem, academic and social competence, and fewer behavior problems....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 19, 2020

Four of My Favorite Jewish Texts for Teaching About Disease

What sources do we, as Jewish educators, draw from when encountered with a global pandemic?...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 13, 2020

Blessing for B-Mitzvah Impacted by the Coronavirus

Beth Sholom Elkins Park PA Moving Traditions Coronavirus Blessing

Mazal Tov to you and your family. Know that your family and friends, those who are near and those who are farther than they wanted to be are celebrating you today. And our Jewish community and world i...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 13, 2020