Blog - Moving Traditions

Boston – Raising Healthy Jewish Teens in a #MeToo World

Please join us for a dynamic evening focused on the challenges of raising healthy, modern Jewish teens. Moving Traditions' Chief of Education and Program, Rabbi Daniel Brenner will lead an exploratio...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
February 26, 2018

Are Jewish Men Pigs?

Personal Reflections on the role of Jewish education in the wake of #metoo

...the more I have thought about the Jewish men in the headlines, the more I have been considering the role that fam...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
February 26, 2018

Teens, Purim, and #metoo

This year, given the #metoo movement we should talk with kids of all genders about the powerful actions of Vashti and Esther, different as they are on the surface....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
February 22, 2018

Denver – The Complex Inner World of Today’s Teens in a #metoo World

Thursday, February 15, 2018 5:30-7:00 Please join us in Denver for a dynamic and informative session for parents of pre-teens and teens, educators, teen clinicians, and other youth professionals on th...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
February 7, 2018

New York – Moving Traditions Goes To Broadway: Mean Girls

Moving Traditions is thrilled to announce an evening of theatre and discussion at the acclaimed Broadway production of Mean Girls....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
January 18, 2018

The Covenant Foundation announces $1.6m. in New Grants

eJewishPhilanthropy, January 4, 2018

The Covenant Foundation announced $1.6 million in new grants today, investing in Jewish organizations and initiatives with sweeping potential fo...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
January 9, 2018

Preteens, Teens Question Gender Roles in Groups

By Selah Maya Zighelboim, Jewish Exponent, December 20, 2017

The groups provide a space for teens to talk and ask questions about identity and gender — all within a Jewish context....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
January 2, 2018

Teach Our Children Well: Judaism, Ethics, and Intimate Justice

By Deborah Meyer, eJewish Philanthropy, December 20, 2017

If we do not want the world our teens inherit and shape to look like the world of today, then we must seize this opportuni...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
December 20, 2017

A Hanukkah Meditation

Bringing Light to the Darkness Let us stand together as we light the candles this Hanukkah, connecting to each other and to the Jewish tradition of recovering the light and what is holy from the darkn…

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
December 5, 2017

2017 URJ Biennial

We are thrilled to share that we will be at the 2017 URJ Biennial in Boston! Please join us for our learning session (description below) on Friday, December 8, at 11:00 a.m., and find us at Booth 427 …

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
November 28, 2017