Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! Has Arrived in Israel
The largely popular Moving Tradition’s Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! has hit the Israeli scene. Known by many throughout North American Jewry, Moving Tradition’s program has captivate...
Moving Traditions Policy Regarding Transgender Youth
Moving Traditions is strongly committed to making it possible for any girl-identified teen who wants to join a Rosh Hodesh group and any boy-identified teen who wants to join a Shevet group, to do so...
Training Conference – Advance Reading
Who we are, what we do and why we need Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!...
Aly Raisman’s Nude Photoshoot Isn’t As Scandalous As You Think
Though the shoot may be suggestive, it suggests not only 21-year-old Raisman’s potential sex appeal as gymnast-Jewess, but also a triumph of body positivity amidst industries — both gymnastics and...
Meaning-Making for Teens: An Interview with Deborah Meyer
A new interview with Deborah Meyer in the Covenant Foundation’s online magazine, Sightline, looks at how Moving Traditions helps teens find and stay connected to their kol dmama daka, the s...
Creating Safe Spaces
Samantha Appel works in restaurant marketing in New York City, and attended our Boston 2014 Training Conference. Samantha says, “What’s amazing about the Moving Traditions’ training …
It’s a Girl Thing! Helping To Develop Jewish Pride, Identity
It’s a precarious world for Jewish girls — in addition to the angst of adolescence, they are at risk for depression, eating disorders and risky behavior. And Jewish girls, post-...
Session Spotlight: Teen Girls in a Changing World
With Rabbi Sara Brandes They are called Generation Z, the post-Millenials. They are digital natives, born into a world most of us couldn’t have imagined when we were teens. To work with them suc…
Jewish Trans Teen Inclusion: A Research and Action Convening
Purpose: Help Moving Traditions (and organizations that work with Jewish teens in single gender spaces) think through how to translate a commitment to full inclusion of transgender and gender non-conf…
Rebekkah Gold
If I had to use three words to describe Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing I would say “community,” “identity,” and “empowerment.”...