Deep Reflection: An Accounting of the Soul
This year, we suggest that you use the questions below to guide your own heshbon hanefesh. You can read and consider them during High Holiday services, or take turns answering questions with ...
Category Holiday Resources
With Outstretched Arms
Moving Traditions’ Seder Supplement 5775
Passover makes us think about the wo...
Heroines of Hanukkah and Our Own Times
This year, Hanukkah is being linked to important activism around many issues, particularly racial injustice and police violence. As many of us join these struggles, let us also use this holiday to fo…
Miriam and Elijah – Two Cups for Your Seder
Moving Traditions encourages you to add a Miriam’s cup to your seder table alongside that of Elijah....
Beauty: From the Scroll to the App
During the Hebrew month of Adar, Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! groups wrestle with questions about the standards of beauty they experience in American culture, meeting the biblical hero...
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...
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...
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 (...