Your Prayer for America
The central Jewish prayer, the Amidah, can be framed as a series of “Wow – Please – Thanks.” The Amidah starts off with statements of “Wow” (or Shevach, praise) – we express wond…
Category Resources
Community Learning Resources from Moving Traditions include content to use with the teens in your life on Jewish holidays, to help process recent events, and more.
Resources from Pride and Joy In the Face of Backlash
On June 16, Moving Traditions hosted a webinar for parents and educators of Jewish youth. In Pride and Joy In the Face of Backlash, co-sponsored by Keshet, we talked about how to show up for the que…
Resources from Supporting Your Teen’s Jewish Identity
On Tuesday, March 24, Moving Traditions hosted Supporting Your Teen’s Jewish Identity: Insights from an Unlikely Rabbi, a webinar for parents of Jewish youth. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shared h…
The Bittersweet in Every Passover
This year, Moving Traditions invites you to focus on two of the foods on the seder plate – the maror, bitter herbs, and the haroset, the sweet mixture that symbolizes the mortar used by the enslaved...
Purim: Courage in the Face of Adversity
As we approach Purim, a holiday story filled with characters who take courageous action, Moving Traditions encourages you and the Jewish youth in your life to take a closer look at how …
Jewish Reproductive Justice
From jGirls+ Magazine Pro-Choice: An Interview Series We offer you this series of interviews written by teen staff writers for jGirls+ Magazine following the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Ph…
Resources from Six Ways Teens Respond to Israel
On Wednesday, December 10, Moving Traditions hosted Six Ways Teens Respond to Israel, a webinar for parents of Jewish youth. Dr. Jonathan Krasner, Chair of Jewish Education Research at Brandeis U…
A New Hanukkah Ritual for Teens
As we enter Hanukkah — a time of light, resilience, and small miracles — Moving Traditions offers you this new resource to use with the teens in your life, a closing ritual excerpted from our la...
Observing Transgender Awareness Week
By Shuli Karkowsky As we step out of Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19), I find myself thinking about how it is always important to mark this week – and how its significance rose this year …
After the War: Prayers for This Moment
To help Jewish youth process the ceasefire deal in Gaza and the hostage release, Moving Traditions offers you this excerpt of a new special edition curriculum. If you are a partnering educator, access…