Blog - Moving Traditions

Key Learnings from Moving Traditions Teen Groups, Rosh Hodesh and Shevet

2018 Year End Evaluation Moving Traditions works with Informing Change to evaluate our teen groups on an annual basis to measure our impact and to identify ways to improve our progra...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 20, 2019

How a New Model of Family Education Places the Parent-Child Relationship at the Center of the B’nai Mitzvah Experience

By Rabbi Daniel Brenner, eJewish Philanthropy March 18, 2019 Today, as we face a generational “Crisis of Connection,” Jewish educators are beginning to expand the scope of that dialogue to addres...

Sarah Fox
March 18, 2019

Talking about drinking at Purim

Tradition teaches that we are supposed to drink on Purim until we cannot tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman — which is not such great messaging for teens....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
March 9, 2019

Reflection 2020: A Moving Traditions Election Toolkit for Teens

Moving Traditions has created this toolkit with

Paige Florin
February 28, 2019

Talking About the New Gillette Advertisement with Teens

Goal: For teen boys in Shevet groups to use the Gillette ad as a jumping off point to reflect on how traditional ideas and stereotypes of masculinity affect them and people they know today....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
February 13, 2019

Turning Jewish Boys Into Mensches

By Marjorie Ingall, Tablet, February 1, 2019

The news abounds with stories of young white men behaving abominably...Men exploding in social media fury at a razor commercial (
Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
February 1, 2019