Pages to print before the session: Objectives: Understand that different families have different access to resources, different values, and different pressures, and therefore will make different decisions about the kind of b’nai mitzvah party they will have. Experience empathy toward peers who are in different family circumstances than their own.
Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Explore Jewish and cultural ideas about friendship Clarify their beliefs about friendship Identify the different kinds of friends they have in their lives Feel grateful for positive friendships in their lives
Hello and welcome to the new Rosh Hodesh curriculum! Before you start reading, here are the top 7 things you need to know about this curriculum. This curriculum was created based on lots of conversations with group leaders and girls who have led and experienced the program. You told us that art projects are great…
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to. Reflect on the role that social media plays in their lives and on the joys/challenges of social media; Describe how social media and technology affect their friendships, romantic relationships, and relationships with family members; Strategize, with the help of Jewish wisdom, about how…
Creating Calm in Our Lives: At a Glance: In this session, participants will learn to lean into stressful emotions instead of avoiding or working around them. They will use Jewish lessons of niguns, meditation, Shabbat, and the story of Exodus to gain healthy coping mechanisms. Participants will come away with healthy and actionable ways of…
#NoFilter: Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Appreciate their bodies for all that they do and allow them to do. Describe the media’s effect on body image, particularly for girls and people socialized as girls. Understand how to make healthy and kind choices surrounding self-care.
Rosh Hodesh #MeToo Session 1 – NEW Empowered & Prepared Session 1 College Expectations & Norms Empowered & Prepared Session 2 Peer Panel & Defining Consent Session 2 Peer Panel & Defining Consent Empowered & Prepared Session 3 Dissecting Consent:…
Rosh Hodesh #MeToo Session 1; Session 1 Connecting to Ourselves and Each Other; Session 2 Being Present; Session 3 Growing Out Not In; Session 4 Driving; Session 5 Hineni - I Am Here; Other Ideas for Gatherings; Additional Activities
Our year started with stories of men behaving badly and has gotten worse over the last few months. More playground-like name-calling from the POTUS, the revelations about Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults and cover-ups and the many men whose acts of sexual harassment we are now learning about (including prominent Jewish men like Jeffrey Tambor, Al…
Being in Intimate Relationships, Part 2: Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Reflect on their own boundaries and communication styles within romantic relationships; Understand how to use assertive communication to articulate personal boundaries in a relationship; Understand that there are various real-life romantic/sexual pressures facing girls, especially in high…
