What are some of the most important things you think Moving Traditions can contribute to Jewish life today?
Doctoroff: I think we bring a lens with which to look at the experience of Jews in today’s world. Moving Traditions is examining certain times in people’s lives as opportunities for connecting them in a powerful way with Jewish traditions – ways they might not even have thought about. For example, in our program, Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! we’re creating an opportunity that didn’t really exist for Jewish teenage girls to come together around issues that are relevant in their lives, and to find the Jewish content that really helps to illuminate and guide their experience as teenagers. What role do you see gender playing in building Jewish identity? Doctoroff: Gender is part of who we are and how we live our lives. The exploration of how that pertains to our Jewish lives is critical. We’re all put into compartments or we see ourselves in compartments. Looking at things with a gender lens is liberating; it gives us the chance to ask what we are doing or why we are doing it. We can th
