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.”...
New York Responds to the Rosh Hodesh Evaluation
On April 13th Moving Traditions presented the results of our evaluation of Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! to a group of Jewish educators and thought leaders. Board chair Sally Gottesman kicked …
Instead of Trying to Keep Teens Jewish, Let’s Work to Keep Them Healthy
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When Jewish education promote...
Healthy Sexuality: Creating and Launching a New Model for Jewish Teens
Introduction For parents: The problem, our response and an overview of the program. For pilot group leaders: Working with teens. Rosh Hodesh Workshops Session 1: Pleasure Session 2: Take Action Shevet…
Healthy Sexuality – Program Overview
The Problem Teens live in a highly sexualized world where they gather a great deal of information from online spaces, including easily accessible online pornography which presents them with skewed ide…
Finding Freedom For All At Pesach
Spring is finally arriving and Passover is on its way. I love this holiday. Of course, it’s exhausting and it always causes some domestic stress......
With Outstretched Arms
Moving Traditions’ Seder Supplement 5775
Passover makes us think about the wo...