Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!!!

“It’s hard for us adults who have not grown up with e-mail and instant messaging or two hundred television cable channels to understand how the media is the culture for today’s adolescents. In this visual, media-saturated culture, girls are surrounded by images and stories of teens making bad choices-choices about truth telling, friendship, family relationships, education, leadership, and love. Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! offers girls the chance to be enveloped in an alternative culture that will help them counter the media’s popular culture’s unhealthy messages. Experts know that girls are very grateful for the opportunity to have a safe space in which they can get some clarity about what they think and what they want, practice using their voices, and learn how to have the courage to hold on to their convictions.”

Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing Source Book

Small groups of girls meet monthly, in the home of participants, to address these issues. Through discussion, field trips, and/or the arts, the girls integrate core Jewish values as they focus on issues such as body image, friendship, relationships, competition, stress, family, and community service.

For more information, please contact Alison Morse, Education Director at cbi.edudir@verizon.net