What Moving Traditions has Learned about Teens and Israel

In the course of developing “Our Next Generation” — the most recent strategic plan for our organization, Moving Traditions, released in 2022 — we learned that many teens didn’t feel they had permission to talk about Israel. They felt they weren’t sufficiently informed about the country’s deep and complicated history, or they were worried that they had an opinion that wasn’t the “right” opinion. As a result, we started asking ourselves and our stakeholders: How can we better support Jewish teens by making sure they can bring whatever is weighing on their hearts to Jewish spaces without fear? How can we do that in a way that also respects the very different mindsets their parents and educators might have?

Shuli Karkowsky is CEO of Moving Traditions.

Read the full article in eJewish Philanthropy. Photo courtesy of Moving Traditions: Teens participate in a Moving Traditions program for Rosh Hodesh.