Re-Imagining the Coming of Age Journey
By Lisa Gersten, eJewishPhilanthropy, August 29, 2013. What if the bar or bat mitzvah signaled a teen’s entry into an ongoing gathering of Jewish peers led by an inspiring mentor who helped them dis…
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Staying Present: Adult Mentors are Essential to Teens’ Lives and to Effective Jewish Teen Engagement
By Deborah Meyer, eJewishPhilanthropy, May 9, 2013.
I was lucky. When I was 13 and trying to figure out the world around me, I had a camp counselor who really “got” me. She ...
Jim Joseph 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 eac...
Learn To Love Your Jewish Body
By Rachel Heller, Tablet Magazine, February 25, 2013
On a recent Sunday evening in Los Angeles, five eighth-grade girls lounged in armchairs or sat on the floor, talking with a r...
Bar Mitzvah, and Then What?
By H. Glenn Rosenkrantz, for The Covenant Foundation, September 3, 2012
For the nearly 900 families belonging to Congregation Beth El in Voorhees, New Jersey, programming to engag...
Family Matters: Where the Boys Are
By Rahel Musleah, Hadassah Magazine, October, 2012
Robert Riemer, 16, went reluctantly to the first meeting of Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood at his synagogue. The prog...
Boy to Mensch
By Meredith Jacobs, Washington Jewish Week, August 1, 2012
It starts with a game. One that's cooperative and not competitive. Or it starts with food preparation. Food is always ...
Girl Power!
By Alanna Berman, San Diego Jewish Journal, February, 2012
In early 2009, the Jewish Women’s Foundation, part of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, set out to change the lives ...
Rosh Hodesh Groups Help Young Girls
By Cindy Mindell, The Jewish Ledger, January 12, 2012
Some five years ago, the Jewish educational organization, Moving Traditions, launched Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!...
Moving Forward
By Sonia Isard, Lilith Magazine, Fall 2011
In a world where one in five teens has reported abusing prescription medications, where physical aggression occurs in one third of teen dating re...