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  • Educator Resources – Yahrzeit: One Year After October 7

    Educator Resources – Yahrzeit: One Year After October 7

    Moving Traditions has developed a new special edition curricular session, Yahrzeit: One Year After October 7, to help educators and teens commemorate the anniversary of October 7. The new curricular […

  • Beckee Birger of Moving Traditions Announced as 2024-2025 Obama Foundation Leader

    Beckee Birger of Moving Traditions Announced as 2024-2025 Obama Foundation Leader

    On September 17, 2024, it was announced that Beckee Birger is among 205 leaders selected to join the Obama Foundation Leaders program….

  • Announcing the Fall 2024 Kumi: Foundation Participants

    Announcing the Fall 2024 Kumi: Foundation Participants

    Moving Traditions to bring together Jewish teen activists from across the US to make a difference September 4, 2024 – Moving Traditions is proud to announce 27 newly selected participants […]…

  • Announcing the 2024-25 Cohort of Meyer-Gottesman Kol Koleinu Teen Feminist Fellows 

    Announcing the 2024-25 Cohort of Meyer-Gottesman Kol Koleinu Teen Feminist Fellows 

    Moving Traditions to bring together Jewish teen activists from across the US to make a difference  August 28, 2024 – Moving Traditions is proud to announce 43 newly selected 2024-2025 [……

  • Partner Events Commemorating October 7

    Partner Events Commemorating October 7

    Moving Traditions is proud to support our local communities and Jewish Federation partners in these events to mark the anniversary of October 7. This listing will continue to be updated, […]…

  • Parent You Should Know: Shuli Karkowsky

    Parent You Should Know: Shuli Karkowsky

    MetroKids Magazine | In March 2022, Shuli Karkowsky became CEO of Moving Traditions in Elkins Park, a Jewish nonprofit that empowers teens through self-discovery and social connection. It was her firs…

  • SRE Network announces recipients of $575K in grants

    SRE Network announces recipients of $575K in grants

    By Rachel Kohn for eJewishPhilanthropy | Twelve Jewish nonprofits have been awarded a total of $575,000 in “field building grants” from SRE Network, the organization announced today. Connecting…

  • Why invest in CIT programs?

    Why invest in CIT programs?

    By Rabbi Daniel Brenner for eJewishPhilanthropy | I was speaking with my friend’s daughter the other day about her experience as a counselor-in-training (CIT) at a local Jewish day camp when she gav…

  • Reflections on Juneteenth

    Reflections on Juneteenth

    by Beckee Birger, Director of DEIJ Initiatives My daughter and I read a book called Juneteenth For Mazie. It’s a sweet story about how a young girl named Mazie learns […]…