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  • 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…

  • The life-changing magic of washing your hands (on Passover)

    The life-changing magic of washing your hands (on Passover)

    By Rabbi Daniel Brenner for Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — At the height of the pandemic, I remember maddeningly washing, scrubbing and antibacterial-spritzing my hands in a bathroom along …

  • Teen Leadership Opportunities

    Teen Leadership Opportunities

    We are excited to announce two 2023-24 leadership opportunities for Jewish teens now accepting applications: Both programs are for Jewish teens in 10th-12th grade who are interested in social action […

  • The Same, Yet Different at Passover

    The Same, Yet Different at Passover

    I love how the calendar of Jewish holidays lends structure to my year. Passover epitomizes this more than any other holiday – replete with strong childhood memories; ritual before, during, and after…

  • Covenant Foundation Grants: Kulam

    Covenant Foundation Grants: Kulam

    How does the Kulam program differ from other Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah programming? Kulam is a post-b-mitzvah education program for Hebrew High School settings, which aims to continue the successful…

  • White House Dispatch

    White House Dispatch

    By Shuli Karkowsky, Moving Traditions’ CEO I am writing this email on the train home from the White House, where I joined a group of incredible leaders at the first-ever […]…

  • A Feminist Midrash for Purim

    A Feminist Midrash for Purim

    By Rabbi Tamara Cohen As we prepare to celebrate Purim, which is coming up on March 6-7 this year, Moving Traditions offers you an interesting perspective to discuss at your […]…