The Bittersweet in Every Passover
This year, Moving Traditions invites you to focus on two of the foods on the seder plate – the maror, bitter herbs, and the haroset, the sweet mixture that symbolizes the mortar used by the enslaved...
Category Holiday Resources
A Passover Message for 2026
In various telling of Persian and Hebrew folk tales, a sultan requests of the wise King Solomon a phrase that will always be true in good times and bad, and King Solomon responds, “Gam zeh ya’avor...
Purim: Courage in the Face of Adversity
As we approach Purim, a holiday story filled with characters who take courageous action, Moving Traditions encourages you and the Jewish youth in your life to take a closer look at how …
A New Hanukkah Ritual for Teens
As we enter Hanukkah — a time of light, resilience, and small miracles — Moving Traditions offers you this new resource to use with the teens in your life, a closing ritual excerpted from our la...
Tashlich with Teens
Tashlich is a High Holiday ritual of throwing into a river breadcrumbs (or an ecologically friendly alternative, such as rice paper), as a symbolic casting out of our misdeeds from the past year....
Reflections on Juneteenth
by Beckee Birger, Director of DEIJ Initiatives My daughter and I read a book called Juneteenth For Mazie. It’s a sweet story about how a young girl named Mazie learns about her great-grandpa Mose an…
Passover, Protest, & Power: An Intergenerational Conversation
When should we defy authority, and when should we obey? When should we raise our voices, and when should we work behind the scenes?
We encourage you to use the text and questions in this resource to ...
Finding Balance on Rosh Hashanah
A reflection by Stacy Shapiro, Northeast Regional Director I love the tradition of having apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah. Apples, to me, are a little sour, and, of course, honey is sweet. We combin…
High Holiday Resources
A collection of resources and rituals for the High Holidays from Moving Traditions...
Shavuot Text Study: We All Stood Together
On this Shavuot, we invite you and the teens in your life to take some time to read and discuss an iconic Jewish feminist poem by Merle Feld. This poem is one that we use both with our Meyer-Gottesman…