• One Moon, One Wall, One People

    Win a free trip to Israel to stand with Women of the Wall.

  • Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!

    Learn more about how Moving Traditions inspires and empowers girls in the Jewish community 

  • Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood

    Find out how Moving Traditions is pioneering a new model of connection for Jewish teen boys 

  • Bat Mitzvah Comes Of Age

    A travelling exhibition that tells the story of how a radical innovation became a nearly universal tradition based on interviews with over 150 pioneers 

  • National Training Conferences

    Moving Traditions is pleased to offer two national training conferences in 2013: Los Angeles: June 2-4, 2013 and Boston: July 28-30, 2013.


Mission

Moving Traditions inspires people to live fuller lives -- and to work for a better world for all -- by advocating for a more expansive view of gender in Jewish learning and practice.

News


One Moon, One Wall, One People — Contest Announcement

Moving Traditions is launching the One Moon, One Wall, One People campaign in support of Women of the Wall. Through a video contest, we are inviting pre-teens and teens who participate in our programs, Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood, to make their voices heard on religious freedom.

Two winners will be selected to win a free trip for themselves and a parent (flight and hotel) to Israel this winter to attend Rosh Hodesh services at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall.


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Profiles


How To Start A Group

When Margie Patlak heard about Moving Traditions’ Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! program several years ago, she decided to start a group for her daughter, Eva Chudnow, and her friends. Margie wanted to help the girls build strong Jewish female identities in the face of challenging messages from the media and society.


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Insights


Report: Effective Strategies for Educating and Engaging Jewish Teens

Moving Tradition’s Rosh Hodesh: It’s A Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood utilize three modes of learning—sensory, cognitive and emotive—during each monthly session, which place teen girls’ and boys’ coming-of-age experiences at the center of the groups’ educational activities. Moving Traditions is also a prime example of a program that intentionally addresses the different stages of adolescent development in its pedagogical approach.


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