Group Leader Spotlight: Deborah Sacks
I’m working with a group of seventh graders. As Brooklyn girls, they are, I believe, forced into a more adult world than the average seventh grader. They have more independence and more autonomy. As...
Reeds on the Seder Table: A Moving Traditions Passover Exploration
Three Insights from the Tale of a Young Egyptian Woman
This Passover, we suggest adding the story of a courageous woman to round out your seder – that of Bat Paro, the daughter of Pharaoh. Adding r...
Jim Joseph Report: Effective Strategies for Educating and Engaging Jewish Teens
Moving Tradition’s Rosh Hodesh: It’s A Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood utilize three modes of learning—sensory, cognitive and emotive—during eac...
We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Helping Teens Identify Pharaoh
A boy is tricked into being part of a game with other boys only to find out that he is the target of mockery and abuse. A girl is happy to be included as a “friend” at a lunch table until she find...
Learn To Love Your Jewish Body
By Rachel Heller, Tablet Magazine, February 25, 2013
On a recent Sunday evening in Los Angeles, five eighth-grade girls lounged in armchairs or sat on the floor, talking with a r...
Beauty Queens, Masks and Jewish Teens
Every year at Purim, we tell the tale of a Jewish teenage girl who ascends to the throne of the Persian Empire by pretending not to be Jewish.
This year, Rabbi Sara Brandes looks at Megillat Esther (...
How To Start A Group
When Margie Patlak heard about Moving Traditions’ Rosh Hodesh program several years ago, she decided to start a group for her daughter, Eva Chudnow, and her friends. Margie wanted to help ...
Insights on Pornography, Sexual Consent and the Lives of Jewish Teens
An Interview with Dr. Shira Tarrant, Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach is a nationally recognized expert o...
We Condemn Anat Hoffman’s Arrest for Praying
This week as hundreds of Rosh Hodesh: It's A Girl Thing! groups gathered in the United States to celebrate the new month, we at Moving Traditions were upset to learn that our supporter, Ana...
Coming of Age
Coming of age is not easy, even for the most socially well-adjusted teen.
Compounding the difficulties, there are profound differences in the ways that girls and boys are judged by their peers and me...