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  • Shavuot Text Study: We All Stood Together

    Shavuot Text Study: We All Stood Together

    On this Shavuot, we invite you and the teens in your life to take some time to read and discuss an iconic Jewish feminist poem by Merle Feld. This poem is one that we use both with our Meyer-Gottesman…

  • The Science & Power of Spirituality for Teen Mental Health – Resources

    The Science & Power of Spirituality for Teen Mental Health – Resources

    1. Help them feel centered and connected in times of stress through a Jewish meditative practice. A medieval Jewish meditation technique, developed by the Jewish Spanish mystic Abulafia involves visua…

  • Where Jewish Education Meets Feminism

    Where Jewish Education Meets Feminism

    Adapting Podcast for The Jewish Education Projects, featuring Shuli Karkowsky
    Gender, feminism, and power are all salient features of adolescent development today. Jewish youth is certainly no exc…

  • If some synagogue schools are sinking ships, we’re coming with lifeboats

    If some synagogue schools are sinking ships, we’re coming with lifeboats

    By Shuli Karkowsky & Pamely Barkley for eJewishPhilanthropy
    We know from studies of teen mental health that teens need meaningful education more than ever as a way to connect to themselves, to pe…

  • Stand With Transgender Teens: Discussion Guide

    Stand With Transgender Teens: Discussion Guide

    We invite you to read and share this article published in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent on April 26, 2023. You can use it as a jumping off point with your teens for discussion. Ask them: Stand With…

  • Straight for Equality: May is National Jewish Heritage Month

    Straight for Equality: May is National Jewish Heritage Month

    When discussing the intersection of religion and LGBTQ+ identity, Judaism is generally perceived to be among the more welcoming and affirming faith traditions in the US. There are countless organizati…

  • Mental Health Awareness Month Resources

    Mental Health Awareness Month Resources

    Resource topics: At Moving Traditions, we seek to enhance teens’ sense of connection—to themselves, to their peers, to mentor adults, and to their Jewish community—as the same studies that ident…

  • Chai Benefit 2023

    Chai Benefit 2023

    At our 2023 Chai Benefit, we celebrated 18 years of impact on Jewish youth and honored the incredible Tami Astorino for all the ways she’s helped Moving Traditions grow since the beginning….

  • Stand With Transgender Teens

    Stand With Transgender Teens

    By Kerrick Goodman-Lucker
    Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
    This year for Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, some of us felt a little too visible. It felt like all eyes are on our trans an…