Sparking Resistance: Women Risk-Takers In Those Days and These
InsightsWhen we come to Hanukkah with a gender lens we enable ourselves to see more of the holiday’s complexity and richness.
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Guidance for Jewish educators and parents: Helping teens in the wake of Pittsburgh
InsightsWe share in the grief and pain being experienced in the Jewish community and beyond from the devastating shooting in Pittsburgh. Moving Traditions and other Jewish educators have a unique opportunity to support teens as they navigate through…
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Passover, #MeToo, and a Mirror on Your Seder Plate
Insights, PassoverThis year, to address the #metoo movement and our societal need for deep reckoning around gender, sexuality, and power, it is time to take a step further. I propose that we do so by adding mirrors to our seder plates this year.
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Are Jewish Men Pigs?
InsightsPersonal Reflections on the role of Jewish education in the wake of #metoo
…the more I have thought about the Jewish men in the headlines, the more I have been considering the role that family dynamics, religious teachings, communities, and social conditions all play in forming our sexual fantasies, sexual experiences, and sexual ethics.
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Teens, Purim, and #metoo
InsightsThis year, given the #metoo movement we should talk with kids of all genders about the powerful actions of Vashti and Esther, different as they are on the surface.
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A Hanukkah Meditation
InsightsBringing Light to the Darkness Let us stand together as we light the candles this Hanukkah, connecting to each other and to the Jewish tradition of recovering the light and what is holy from the darkness of the…
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Resources: Dealing with Difficult Times
InsightsA Letter to Shevet Group Leaders: How Do We Talk to Teen Boys About Men Behaving Badly? A Letter to Rosh Hodesh Group Leaders: Talking to Girls About Living in a World Where Sexual Harassment Isn’t Generally Newsworthy…
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InsightsIntroduction People inside and outside of the Jewish education world are talking about the new Netflix show, 13 Reasons Why, mostly focusing on how the intense story and attractive characters glamorize suicide. The show also contains scenes and…
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Moving Traditions Goes Beyond the Binary
Insights, Press Releases, Transgender/NonbinaryMoving Traditions has created a first-of-its-kind online group for Jewish teens who identify as transgender, nonbinary, or gender questioning. Like Rosh Hodesh and Shevet Achim, Moving Traditions’ program for trans/non-binary Jewish teens—offered in partnership with Keshet—will meet monthly,…
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We All Make The Seder
Insights, PassoverThe practice in many families is for one person, often a male head of household, to lead the seder. This year, we are thinking about leadership differently than in past traditions. The story of Passover is filled with shared leadership.”
From Moses and Aaron to Shifra and Puah, explore examples of shared leadership in our 2017 seder resource. Click here to download.
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