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  • Hadassah Foundation: Mission Critical

    Hadassah Foundation: Mission Critical

    Hadassah Magazine | For example, Moving Traditions, a longtime American grantee, used its expertise around the teen mental health crisis to address youth anxiety over rising antisemitism and the war i…

  • Different From All Other Years

    Different From All Other Years

    Just as Passover is different from all other nights, this year feels different from all other years. We feel caught in the place between our individual wellbeing and the state of our broader people. …

  • In Their Words: How to Build the Next Generation of Jewish Feminist Activists

    In Their Words: How to Build the Next Generation of Jewish Feminist Activists

    By Paige GoldMarche The last generation of feminists fought hard for bodily autonomy, reproductive freedoms, and the right for me to marry my wife. Teens today are not guaranteed these […]…

  • Urchatz: A Deeper Dive into Handwashing at the Seder

    Urchatz: A Deeper Dive into Handwashing at the Seder

    This year, Moving Traditions invites you to slow down while you wash your hands at the start of your seder, and contemplate the depth contained in this underappreciated ritual.  Handwashing [&hel…

  • The Shalom Center Chapter 9 Project

    The Shalom Center Chapter 9 Project

    This Purim, The Shalom Center invited writers, dreamers, and seekers, to reimagine Chapter 9 of the Book of Esther as an exercise in dreaming new worlds, new responses, and new endings into existence….

  • Finding Joy: A Weekly Jewish Ritual

    Finding Joy: A Weekly Jewish Ritual

    At a time when it may be hard to find joy, the Hebrew month of Adar is when we are called to increase our happiness, as we build up to the celebration of Purim. What if we could weave a part of the Pu…

  • Our New CIT Training Program

    Our New CIT Training Program

    A new Moving Traditions program for counselors-in-training (CITs) will help guide future staff members through eight essential conversations regarding their role in promoting the wellbeing and emotion…

  • What Moving Traditions has learned about teens and Israel

    What Moving Traditions has learned about teens and Israel

    By Shuli Karkowsky for eJewishPhilanthropy | Moving Traditions learned that many teens didn’t feel they had permission to talk about Israel. They felt they weren’t sufficiently informed about the…

  • Recovering the Lost Sisterhood of Vashti & Esther

    Recovering the Lost Sisterhood of Vashti & Esther

    A resource for educators This discussion guide invites students to create feminist Midrash by considering: What if Esther and Vashti from the Purim story had met and were in a […]…