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Shabbat Friendly: Today I Am An Adult: What Does it Mean to Become a Teen?

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…

Shabbat Friendly: You Just Don’t Understand: How Do Parents and Teens Talk to Each Other?

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…

Shevet – In Person Curriculum

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.

Shabbat Friendly: Why Am I Doing This?

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

Shabbat Friendly: Repairing the World: What’s a 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…

Shabbat Friendly: Family: What’s the Deal?

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.