Why I Support Moving Traditions
"Their respective groups provided a safe haven from the drama of cliques and their day-to-day lives. The issues discussed in their groups ran the gamut: from body image and friendship and family, to c...
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How Judaism Made Me A Feminist by Maya Rubin
Riverdale Country School Freshman, and Rosh Hodesh participant Maya Rubin explains how Judaism made her a feminist....
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 ...
Moving Traditions Policy Regarding Transgender Youth
Moving Traditions is strongly committed to making it possible for any girl-identified teen who wants to join a Rosh Hodesh group and any boy-identified teen who wants to join a Shevet group, to do so...
Rebekkah Gold
If I had to use three words to describe Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing I would say “community,” “identity,” and “empowerment.”...
With Outstretched Arms
Moving Traditions’ Seder Supplement 5775
Passover makes us think about the wo...
Baboons, Bonobos, and Bar Mitzvah Boys
Rabbi Daniel Brenner, chief of education and program for Moving Traditions, recently delivered an ELI Talk at the Jewish Theological Seminary that is essential viewi...
Tackling Male Body Image: An Alternative Approach
Rabbi Ben Zeidman, at Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El, has been pioneering a unique approach to Shevet that takes advanta...
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…
Genderosity: Becky
Becky spent her teenage years attending a Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing program through her synagogue. Over the years, her group discussed issues from dating and divorce to sex and sexuali...