Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will: Understand what Tzelem is and what to expect from the group. Identify the unique opportunities of an identity-specific group. Get to know their fellow participants. Get excited about the year to come!
Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Reflect on their personal style of addressing conflict. Practice ways to work through conflict to create positive relationships. Learn traditional Jewish wisdom about managing conflict.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Analyze the role that social media plays in their own lives. Understand the pressures that they and their peers feel related to using social media. Reflect on ancient Jewish wisdom and consider how it may speak to the adolescent challenges and experiences related…
Updated 2024. Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will... Articulate their own understanding of the term self-care, in conversation with peers and other modern as well as ancient sources; Inventory their own self-care practices, noting where they are succeeding in self-care and where they could improve; Study modern and ancient wisdom on the…
The following community partners have sent professionals to the Carol Lowenstein Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah Training Institute and have engaged their communities with the Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah Family Education Program (through 2020-2021):
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Identify the difference between empathy and sympathy; Identify where empathy is reflected in Jewish values; Practice reframing sympathetic situations they might encounter with an empathetic response; Articulate where and why it is important to practice empathy
Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Identify differences in communication styles between themselves and loved ones. Reflect on how they best show and receive love, care, and respect. Recognize the importance of non-verbal communication in their relationships.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Explore the personal experiences and emotions that are connected to Jewish identity. Reflect on the relationship between their Jewish identity and their other identities. Support their peers in connecting to Jewish identity.
Objectives: To introduce families to the Moving Traditions style of family sessions; To help parents and preteens reflect on what is important to them as a family; For parents and preteens/teens to have a meaningful conversation with one another; Parents and preteens will each describe their own contributions to a family covenant
Updated 2024. Objectives: Participants will understand the experience of becoming a b-mitzvah as becoming a teenager and becoming the parent of a teenager Participants will be able to articulate their family’s and community’s values around the b-mitzvah experience Parents and preteens will explore what they are excited about and nervous about in relation to the…
