Helping Recognize Nonprofits’ Creativity
By Eric Berger, Jewish Exponent, October 22, 2014
Moving Traditions, a Jenkintown-based organization targeted at Jewish teens has been selected almost every year since its founding in 2005...
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Testing a model for teenage empowerment
By Johanna Ginsberg, New Jersey Jewish News, July 2, 2014
Vered Idan, 23, has fond memories of the young women’s empowerment group she joined in middle school.
Led by Rabbi Pa...
Moving Traditions Congratulates Ma’yan on the Release of “It’s Actually a Pretty Big Deal” Girls Narratives of Contemporary Bat Mitzvah
By Rabbi Sara Brandes, eJewish Philanthropy, January 6, 2014
Brin and Stephanie will both celebrate their Bat Mitzvah this year, but they could not be more different. Stephanie c...
Standing with WOW and Moving Traditions
By Simone Schicker, Women of the Wall, January 5, 2014
Praying with WOW is always an experience – sometimes positive and sometimes negative but always meaningful. This morning ...
US Teen Contest Winners Reflect On Praying With WOW
By Renee Ghert-Zand, The Times of Israel, January 3, 2014
The three American Jewish teens who won a contest to join the Women of the Wall at the Kotel Thursday say they will neve...
US Teens Win Contest to Pray with Women of the Wall
By Renee Ghert-Zand, The Times of Israel, January 1, 2014
There will be three new faces among the members and supporters of Women of the Wall as they celebrate the new Hebrew mon...
Proud to Pray Like a Girl
By Lucy Sattler, eJewish Philanthropy, December 31, 2013.
I am honored to have been chosen by Moving Traditions to represent the 4,000 teens participating in the organization’s...
Young Women of the Wall
By Shira Pruce, The Times of Israel, December 30, 2013.
Eliza Moss-Horwitz, age 16, is a participant in Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! in Northampton, MA. She will be ...
Eq-wall-ity Slogan Wins U.S. Teen a Trip to Israel
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Haaretz, December 26, 2013
Teenager Alexandra Schwartz had not heard of the Women of the Wall group when her mother got an email from Moving Traditions, ...
Exhibit at Jewish Museum Traces History of Bat Mitzvah
By Paradise Afshar and Sabrina Rodreguez, Miami Herald, September 1, 2013 When it came to preparing for her son’s bar mitzvah, Julie Pronesti took a more active approach than most parents. Read More…