It’s a Girl Thing! Helping To Develop Jewish Pride, Identity
It’s a precarious world for Jewish girls — in addition to the angst of adolescence, they are at risk for depression, eating disorders and risky behavior. And Jewish girls, post-...
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Instead of Trying to Keep Teens Jewish, Let’s Work to Keep Them Healthy
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Finding Freedom For All At Pesach
Spring is finally arriving and Passover is on its way. I love this holiday. Of course, it’s exhausting and it always causes some domestic stress......
Arava Power Investing Profits From New Solar Fields In Social Causes
By Sharon Udasin, The Jerusalem Post, January 12, 2015.
Arava Power Company, the firm responsible for Israel’s first commercial solar field, will be investing profits from its s...
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...
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...
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...