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Healthy Sexuality: Creating and Launching a New Model for Jewish Teens
Introduction For parents: The problem, our response and an overview of the program. For pilot group leaders: Working with teens. Rosh Hodesh Workshops Session 1: Pleasure Session 2: Take Action Shevet…
Healthy Sexuality – Program Overview
The Problem Teens live in a highly sexualized world where they gather a great deal of information from online spaces, including easily accessible online pornography which presents them with skewed ide…
2015 Articles and Resources for Group Leaders
Articles Below is a list of useful articles and resources for group leaders. Click on the name of the article to read it. “A University Recognizes a Third Gender: Neutral” By Julie Scelfo,…
Dealing With Suicide
Dr. Guy Saperstein, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who consults to individuals and organizations on issues relating to resilience. He has extensive experience dealing with suicidal individuals as well…
Boot Camp
We interviewed Nick Greene, a Shevet Achim group leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California about one of his recent group meetings incorporating an IDF “basic training” experience. Also, i…
Tackling Male Body Image: An Alternative Approach
Rabbi Ben Zeidman, at Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El, has been pioneering a unique approach to Shevet that takes advanta...
Talking to Teens about Social Media
The internet has a memory. Even deleted posts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter can be archived or screen-grabbed and shared—so it’s important that teens are encouraged to be thoughtf...
Beauty Clips
Thanks again to those of you who helped Moving Traditions test our new Training module on Beauty and Self-Image for Jewish educators who will be leading Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! groups in 201…
Training Teaser: Using College Humor to Address Judaism and Gender
One of the highlights of the Shevet Achim training is the opportunity to peek into the vast world of YouTube comedy videos that middle and high school boys are consuming and to reflect on the...