Partner Spotlight: Bethany Leinweber
Bethany Leinweber is the Director of Youth Education, Outreach & Engagement at Temple Sinai in Sarasota, FL. She has been with Temple Sinai since 2006 first founding the Gan Preschool Program and even...
Category Profiles
Second Generation Teen Mentor
An acting instructor and director, Tal is following in the footsteps of both of his parents, Marti Arnold, who led Rosh Hodesh groups and Rabbi Jamie Arnold, who led Shevet groups. This makes Tal the ...
How Kol Koleinu Gave One Teen a Stronger Sense of Self
I applied to Kol Koleinu with the hopes of turning my limited knowledge of feminism from RBG being a cool woman to a broader understanding of feminism. I quickly achieved these goals through slideshow...
A New Program Offers A Space For Non-Binary Mitzvahs
By Simone Somekh, Forward, April 25, 2019
After coming out, Kollin thought it would have been great if the organization had an LGBTQ-oriented variation of its programming. “They h...Turning Jewish Boys Into Mensches
By Marjorie Ingall, Tablet, February 1, 2019
The news abounds with stories of young white men behaving abominably...Men exploding in social media fury at a razor commercial (Spotlight: Rafi Daugherty, Trans and Nonbinary Program Group Leader
Rafi Daugherty is an out-and-proud queer, Jewish, transgender man who lives in Denver with his toddler and their two pets (a dog and a cat). Rafi’s work history is colorful and varied, including…
In Profile: Dana Edell, PhD — Educational Consultant to Moving Traditions
Dana Edell is an activist-scholar-artist and the executive director of SPARK Movement, an intergenerational girls’ activist organization that provides tools and resources to ignite a global online a…
Spotlight: Phoenix Schneider, Trans Education Consultant
Phoenix Schneider, M.S.W., is trans and Jewish and a lifelong advocate for LGBTQ communities and is consulting with Moving Traditions as the organization researches the needs of Jewishtrans, non-binar...
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.”...
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...