Different From All Other Years
Just as Passover is different from all other nights, this year feels different from all other years.
We feel caught in the place between our individual wellbeing and the state of our broader people.
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Category Insights
In Their Words: How to Build the Next Generation of Jewish Feminist Activists
By Paige GoldMarche The last generation of feminists fought hard for bodily autonomy, reproductive freedoms, and the right for me to marry my wife. Teens today are not guaranteed these freedoms, many …
The Shalom Center Chapter 9 Project
This Purim, The Shalom Center invited writers, dreamers, and seekers, to reimagine Chapter 9 of the Book of Esther as an exercise in dreaming new worlds, new responses, and new endings into existence....
Finding Joy: A Weekly Jewish Ritual
At a time when it may be hard to find joy, the Hebrew month of Adar is when we are called to increase our happiness, as we build up to the celebration of Purim. What if we could weave a part of the Pu...
What Moving Traditions has learned about teens and Israel
By Shuli Karkowsky for eJewishPhilanthropy | Moving Traditions learned that many teens didn’t feel they had permission to talk about Israel. They felt they weren’t sufficiently informed about the...
State of the Union – January 2024
By Shuli Karkowsky, Moving Traditions CEO Last year, we set out toward the ambitious goals in our strategic plan to double our impact on Jewish youth and the adults in their lives over the next three …
This Hanukkah, Kumi is a Gift
By Rabbi Tamara Cohen, Chief of Programs With Hanukkah approaching, I’ve been thinking about the idea of pirsum ha-nes, “publicizing the miracle,” which is considered central to the ob…
Liberal parents, far-left teens: When Jewish families fight over Israel
Rabbi Daniel Brenner for JTA
Most of my friends in Jewish circles are parents of teens or college students. We are liberal, tolerant, open-hearted folks, who jokingly call ourselves “NPR Jews."...
Growing Together Through Change
Moving Traditions 2023 Annual Report
Learn about Moving Traditions, our impact, and how we are changing to meet teen's growing needs....
Remarks from 2023 Covenant Award Recipient, Rabbi Tamara Cohen
On November 8, 2023, Moving Traditions’ Chief Program Officer Rabbi Tamara Cohen was honored to receive the 2023 Covenant Award. At the celebration, she delivered these remarks. Hineni, here I a…