Healthy Debate: How This Night Can Be Different
Moving Traditions believes that when we come together face-to-face to honestly explore challenging issues, we bring meaning and joy to our lives. This is the beauty of our programs, from b’nai mitzv…
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Key Learnings from Moving Traditions Teen Groups, Rosh Hodesh and Shevet
2018 Year End Evaluation
Moving Traditions works with Informing Change to evaluate our teen groups on an annual basis to measure our impact and to identify ways to improve our progra...
Talking about drinking at Purim
Tradition teaches that we are supposed to drink on Purim until we cannot tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman — which is not such great messaging for teens....
Reflection 2020: A Moving Traditions Election Toolkit for Teens
Moving Traditions has created this toolkit with
Talking About the New Gillette Advertisement with Teens
Goal: For teen boys in Shevet groups to use the Gillette ad as a jumping off point to reflect on how traditional ideas and stereotypes of masculinity affect them and people they know today....
Turning Jewish Boys Into Mensches
The Women’s March, Antisemitism & Intersectional Jewish Women
January 15, 2019
Many activist and feminist Jews are wondering whether to participate in the 2019 women's marches this weekend in light of concerns about antisemitism. It is a complicated con...
Sparking Resistance: Women Risk-Takers In Those Days and These
When we come to Hanukkah with a gender lens we enable ourselves to see more of the holiday’s complexity and richness....
Guidance for Jewish educators and parents: Helping teens in the wake of Pittsburgh
We 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 …
Passover, #MeToo, and a Mirror on Your Seder Plate
This 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...