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 (...
Category Insights
How To Start A Group
When Margie Patlak heard about Moving Traditions’ Rosh Hodesh program several years ago, she decided to start a group for her daughter, Eva Chudnow, and her friends. Margie wanted to help ...
Insights on Pornography, Sexual Consent and the Lives of Jewish Teens
An Interview with Dr. Shira Tarrant, Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach is a nationally recognized expert o...
We Condemn Anat Hoffman’s Arrest for Praying
This week as hundreds of Rosh Hodesh: It's A Girl Thing! groups gathered in the United States to celebrate the new month, we at Moving Traditions were upset to learn that our supporter, Ana...
Coming of Age
Coming of age is not easy, even for the most socially well-adjusted teen.
Compounding the difficulties, there are profound differences in the ways that girls and boys are judged by their peers and me...
Insights on Gender and Teens
Do Parents Influence Teen Behavior?
The conventional wisdom around teens is that as they distance themselves from parents, their peers become their primary influence. But a closer look at research on...
Engaging Jewish Teenage Boys: A Call to Action
Engaging Jewish Teenage Boys: A Call to Action We now have the tools to reverse the loss of Jewish boys after bar mitzvah. Moving Traditions’ comprehensive report, Engaging Jewish Teenage Boys: …
Is Drake’s ‘Re-Bar Mitzvah’ Video a Mockery of Judaism?
Rabbi Daniel Brenner writes in the Huffington ...
Program Evaluation
Moving Traditions contracted in 2007 with independent evaluator, Dr. Mirele Goldsmith, to assess the impact of Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! on a sample of teen girls (397 girls) who we...