Shevet Sessions
Shevet #MeToo Session 1; Shevet #MeToo Session 2
Shevet #MeToo Session 1; Shevet #MeToo Session 2
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…
Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of this session, parents and teens will be able to: Participants will identify the areas of miscommunication, tension, and conflict in parent/child relationships in general and around the b-mitzvah preparation process; Participants will use Jewish wisdom to help them think about issues of communication; Participants will strategize about how…
Current Curriculum: Welcome, Shevet group leaders! If you have questions about the curriculum, please contact Jonah Peretz-Lange, Curriculum Manager (jperetz-lange@movingtraditions.org). Shevet "Taste of" SessionShevet Sessions OverviewFacilitator Tips for Creating Inclusive & Embracing Spaces.
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Objectives: Participants will . . . Explore the personal experiences and emotions that are connected to Jewish identity Think critically about how antisemitism affects one’s Jewish identity and how it manifests in the wider world and in the Jewish world; Will begin a conversation between parent(s) and child that…
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Identify the way gender stereotypes are expressed and enforced in their own communities. Understand the ways these gender stereotypes can affect them. Have a deeper understanding of their parent’s or child’s experience with gender stereotypes.
Updated 2025. Objectives: By the end of this session... Parents will explore why someone would want to have a b-mitzvah; Parents will explore what it means to them to “identify as Jewish” and share this identity with their children; Parents and their children will understand one another’s motivations for having a b-mitzvah
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Families will explore different ways of doing a “mitzvah project” and the differences between Chesed, Tzedakah and Tzedek. Preteens will think more about their own project in relation to their b-mitzvah. Parents will consider what aspects of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, are most…
Objectives: Participants will . . . Expect what Moving Traditions style of family sessions will be like for them and their families. Reflect on what is important to them as a family. Have meaningful conversations with one another. Describe their own contributions to a family covenant.