Blog - Moving Traditions

Young Women of the Wall

By Shira Pruce, The Times of Israel, December 30, 2013.

Eliza Moss-Horwitz, age 16, is a participant in Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! in Northampton, MA. She will be ...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
December 30, 2013

Eq-wall-ity Slogan Wins U.S. Teen a Trip to Israel

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Haaretz, December 26, 2013

Teenager Alexandra Schwartz had not heard of the Women of the Wall group when her mother got an email from Moving Traditions, ...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
December 26, 2013

Annual Report 2013-14

This year, Moving Traditions is making it possible for 4,000 Jewish teens to meet monthly in our programs Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: the Brotherhood in partnership with more t…

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
December 9, 2013

Group Leader Spotlight: David Lieberman

David Lieberman talks about the very real challenges the teen boys grapple with in his Shevet Achim groups....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
November 26, 2013

Challenges for Teens in a Sexualized Environment

While you may not have learned about it in Hebrew School, Jewish tradition has a positive view of sexuality. Unfortunately, teen girls and boys are growing up in a highly sexualized environment wher...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
November 25, 2013

Meet The Winners

The winners of the One Moon, One Wall, One People contest, Alexandra S., Lucy S., and Eliza M. will join Moving Traditions & Women of the Wall in Israel....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
October 29, 2013

Slingshot

Moving Traditions has been named one of 17 "standard bearer" organizations in the ninth annual Slingshot Guide to Jewish Innovation....

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
October 28, 2013

Jewish Women Deserve Equality at the Wall

Eliza M. supports Women of the Wall: "This issue is important to me because I believe in gender equality. All over the world women are being raped, hypersexualized, denied access to education and the...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
October 24, 2013

Proud To Pray Like a Girl

Lucy S. supports Women of the Wall: It is important to join our Temples in song But we need to correct something that's wrong Although it may be far away It is where my spirit stays...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
October 24, 2013

Eq-wall-ity

Alex S. supports Women of the Wall: "...at a holy site having such meaning for all Jews, I find it really hard to believe that women are excluded. As this old proverb from India says, 'Women hold up ...

Jillian Finkelstein Brownstein
October 24, 2013

Applications are open for our Teen Trips & Fellowships!