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Shabbath dinner - (7/9/2010)

Shabbath dinner with guests from Romania, Harkov (Ucraine), Beltsy (Moldova).


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Dinner with guys from USA and girls from Romania - (7/7/2010)

It was dinner with our Jewish friends from Moldova, Romania and 2 guys from USA which have roots from Moldova. Main target of their visit was to find family's roots in small city Belts.


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Piano nights 2 - (7/7/2010)

Continuation of piano nights. This time we visited concert of Misha Katz together with National orchestra of Moldova.


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Weekend meeting - (7/4/2010)

Meeting at the end of week, speaking about new events in our life and exchanging last news.


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Theater - (7/4/2010)

A play written by Jewish writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya. "Sonechka". We invited our Moishe House guests for this performance. This play raised such important topics as Jewish mother and inter cultural communication.


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Piano nights - (7/2/2010)

Moishe house invite guests to wonderful concert organized by France embassy.


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Debate club and football - (6/28/2010)

This Monday we have a special occasion. We had guests from abroad. They had a look at what is this a Moishe House in FSU. I can say that very often our house is full of guests from different countries and different places. All of them fill comfortable and warm in our house. Because we love guests.


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Sabbath dinner - (6/25/2010)

After all the changes in our Moishe house we decided to prepare a tasty Sabbath dinner. Actually it was a last Sabbath for Kitra Kahana our JDC Volunteer. She introduced in our Moishe house a lot of interesting Jewish traditions.


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Shabbat dinner + Olga's birthday party - (6/18/2010)

A best friend of Moishe House celebrated her birthday with us. Also we did not forget about Sabbath dinner.


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Volunteers from Jewish Healthcare International mission - (6/17/2010)

Moishe House residents participated as volunteers in integration summer camp for kids organized by JDC of Moldova. We worked as translators for doctors who came from Israel and US.


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Shabbaton in Moldavian Village - (6/12/2010)

Together with Hillel. We organized a wonderful 2-days Shabbaton out of the city. Two Jewish educators were invited for this event. They brought us interesting program. To read more about it you can here http://jewfish.ning.com/


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Shabbat dinner - (5/14/2010)

Traditional Shabath dinner with our friends.


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Jewish Kishinev excoursion - (5/10/2010)

Jewish Kishinev excoursion


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The Victory Day - (5/9/2010)

The Soviet Victory Day or May 9 marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known as the Great Patriotic War). Our government announced the victory on 9 May . The holiday became a non-labour when every citizen of Chisinau goes to Memorial. MH and friends also went this day to Memorial.


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Shabbath dinner (05/07) - (5/7/2010)

This Shabath we had very special guests from France. They came to Moldova to find their roots and to make a research about Bessarabian Nigunim. All night long we were singing, laughing and dancing. Very important moment was when we had a discussion around Parashat Shavuah about freedom. Everything was filmed and soon community of France will find out about our hospitable House.


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Guests from "Sefer" - (5/3/2010)

Sefer - is a field trip school. They are making researches in Jewish history. Travelling from country to country they collect facts about Jewish tradition in different regions. In may Sefer came in Moldova to make a research about Besarabian Shteitl. We are very happy that they fond time in their busy schedule and spent evening at our place.


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Music Festival - (4/30/2010)

Once our friends from Art Labyrinth proposed us to invite Klezmer band for music festival.http://www.nayekhovichi.ru/(here you can listen to theirs music) We said why not. So have a look at this. When I was at their concert I said this music MUST be on my wedding :)


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Shabbat dinner - (4/23/2010)

Traditional Shabath dinner in family atmosphere.


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What? Where? When? - (4/22/2010)

We gether the cleverest team from MH to go to Intelletual wars. Our program is another step torward victory.


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Shabath Dinner. - (4/16/2010)

Traditional Shabath dinner. After the meal, prepared together with our guests, we enjoyed intellectual game "personalities".


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6 months to our MH - (4/6/2010)

6 months have passed since we were open. This 1st half of the year time passed quickly though a lot of thing happened. To celebrate 6 months came our friends from Romania. There were about 20 guests but atmosphere was like in family.


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Seder+ Sabbath in Moishe House. - (4/2/2010)

At Seder in MH we invited our closest friends. Our Seder was very unusual because we tried to make record "the fastest Seder ever seen". It took us 32 minutes. we were proud of ourselves and our guests received a lot of positive emotions. After praying, meal and weekly part we play a role game about freedom. During the game we had hot discussions.


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Seder Pesah. - (3/30/2010)

Pesah is a great holiday for all Jews around the world. This holiday unites us in a special way, and this way we call Seder. We decided together with Hillel to make it at the restaurant with kosher food from Synagogue. About 50 persons were present at our holiday. We hope in future this number will grow.


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Soap Workshop. - (3/23/2010)

Beauty is girl's prerogative, thats why hand made cosmetics with vitamins and oils was a good idea. This idea was taken unto consideration by STS Channel so they invited Kate to make a small workshop at their morning program.


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Organ Hall + Richard Galliano - (3/22/2010)

Being musical fans, we could not miss a great concert of French musician Richard Galliano.


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Shabath Dinner. - (3/19/2010)

Traditional Shabath dinner.


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Shabath dinner. Special guests. - (3/12/2010)

This Shabath we invited professor of Judaica from Moskow and his wife, the Kovelmans. He came in Chisinau as a lector at "Mini-Limmud" and was very suprised by our invitation. We were sitting at the round table and disscussing actual Jeudaism. It was a great honour sitting next to such interesting person as Professor Kovelman.


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Besarabian Kleizmer's concert - (3/9/2010)

Every year in march we have international musical festival. Each nationality presents a concert with national music. Being a part of Jewish culture we went to Kleizmer concert from Israel.


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Small present to our guests. - (3/6/2010)

Who recently visited our programs received a small magnet"together we can do more" as a symbol of our MH.


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Beit-Midrash(Moon and the Mirror)+ Indian Shabath. - (3/5/2010)

Beit-Midrash is a house of learning. It is also a form of Jewish formal education. We invited Kate Malahova an educator from Kiev to show us this new form. To make the Shabbath more exotic we decided to have a very special Indian cuisine. Kate was surprised by the way everybody were involved in Beit - Midrash. Now we can consider Moishe House - a house of studying.


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Work-Shop With Kitra Cohana - (2/21/2010)

We were very lucky to have a JDC volunteer Kitra Cohana in Moldova. SHe is a professional photographer. We asked her to make a work-shop for us.


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Theater - (2/21/2010)

"Kantor" play written by A.Levin american play writer. Moishe House decided to invite guests to this performance.


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Shabath dinner - (2/19/2010)

Shabath dinner has become a tradition at our MH. Gathering at the round table we pray, sing Niggunim and talk about inspirations of the previous week. This Shabbath we had discussions about Parshat "Teruma".


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Shabath dinner - (2/12/2010)

Our special Guests Dor le Dor director with her daughter and a journalist from "Jewish Shtetle" were surprised how the students spend Friday evening. We were told about different projects we can participate in. Then we had Parshat discussions about slavery. Atmosphere of warmth and comfort complemented the evening. After this Shabath two new articles appeared in "Jewish Shtetle". One about our friend from Canada, and another one about Julia.


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Haiti - (2/11/2010)

Our MH guest made an event were we decided to talk about Tikun Olam and though we are the poorest country in Europe there are people who are more in need (as Haiti citizens). As a result a lot of our guests made donations to Magen David Adom.


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Shabth Dinner when we were away - (2/5/2010)

It was the thirst Shabath when we went away and Stas had to manage everything himself. According to the fotos and comments of our guests the Shabath was very traditional and warm .


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Tu Bi Shvat Seder - (1/29/2010)

What is the meaning of the Tu Bishvat Seder? Last friday night we understood that the kabbalistic take is not an easy one to comprehend. Four worlds, four cups of wine, inner and outer layers of fruits and ourselves! Everything reminds us about something.


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Mozart Birthday - (1/28/2010)

We went to the Organ Hall and received a great pleasure at this extraordinary concert. After the concert we went to MH to warm our bodies with hot tea and our souls with a good talk.


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Shabbat dinner - (1/22/2010)

As usual we invited our friends to celebrate Shabath dinner together. Girls lighted the candels, boys made Kidush. After singing Nigguns we had a discussin about 10 plagues of Egypt.


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What? Where? When? - (1/20/2010)

W?W?W? - is a famous intellectual game in FSU. A friend of ours (Edward) proposed to organize in MH this team game. More than 20 people wished to be involved in this game. we enjoyed our leasure.


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Rosh Hodesh - (1/16/2010)

Rosh hodesh


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Shabbat dinner - (1/15/2010)

Round Shabath table in MH is a place were you can share your thoughts and ideas. We have a tradition. Every Shabath one by one we tell something inspiring that happened this week or what we've learned. This Shabath this game lasted for hours. The atmosphere was great.


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"Swan lake" - (1/10/2010)

Балет -неотъемлемая часть культурного наследия человечества, почему бы и Мойше Хаус не приобщиться к нему. Мы получили эстетическое удовольствие и хорошо провели время.


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New Year Party - (12/31/2009)

On the last day of December 2009 we celebrated the arrival of a new year. This is always a great reason for a party and doing it in the Moishe House made the event even better.


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US TIME - (12/29/2009)

At the end of the year we decided to make something for ourselves, to discuss our future plans and celebrate the 3 months anniversary of our Moishe House :)


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New Year with Tolerance club in Moishe House - (12/27/2009)

We offered our space for celebrating the New Year with our friends from the Tolerance club. We played various games, discussed multiple topics and had a great time together.


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Energy training for women - (12/26/2009)

A friend of Moishe House Olga organized a master class for women. We discussed how to use and to work with women's energy. The entrance was allowed for girls only.


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Intellectual game - (12/24/2009)

What? Where? When? (Russian: Что? Где? Когда?) is an intellectual game show well known in the Russian-speaking region. This is a very Jewish game :) one day we decided to try it in our Moishe House. The attempt was very successful, we will definitely continue conducting this type of intellectual development.


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Antisemitism in Moldova - (12/20/2009)

Antisemitism and vandalism that happend during Hanukkah in Chisinau did not leave us indifferent. Together with the Tolerance club, Amnesty International and representatives from the UN we were trying to understand what is going on. And what will be our response for that.


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Caravan of Illusions - (12/20/2009)

Our friends NGO Art Labyrinth organized an ethnic music festival. Balkan, Roma, and Irish music played during the whole day.


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Cleizmer band in Moishe House - (12/18/2009)

Moishe House hosted musicians from cleizmer band, that performed at the festival. We celebrated together Sabbath.


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What? Where? When? - (12/17/2009)

Our Moishe house created a team of intellectuals. Who took first place in Hanukkah intellectual game What? Where? When?


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Hanukkah Festival + Sabbath - (12/11/2009)

We organized a Hanukkah festival together with our volunteer Kitra. We lighted our hand made hanukia. Happy Hanukkah


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Master-class ceramics - (12/9/2009)

master class ceramics with jewish texts


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Jazz concert - (12/5/2009)

Our friends jazz band invited Moishe house to their concert. Listening to the beautiful music and pleasant voice, we enjoyed this concert.


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post crossing - (12/4/2009)

We decided to launch a small project "Post crossing " between Moishe Houses in the world


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Expedition to the old Jewish cemetery. - (11/29/2009)

The main purpose to invite Lena Kushnir to Kishinev was her knowledge in Jewish history. So we decided to use her knowledge and make an expedition to the Old Jewish cemetery in Kishinev. She explained us how to read epigraph on tombstones. In addition we invited widow of a famous Yiddish writer to tell about his creativity.


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Sabbath dinner and textual happening - (11/26/2009)

On Friday arrived our guest from Kiev, by the way she is going to open Moishe House in Ukraine. We prepared a small photo exhibition and texts. After a proper sabbath meal , we enjoyed intellectual food.


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Theater-performance - (11/21/2009)

This sabbath we had a special guest. Ilia Shatz, he is a stage director in Russian dramatic theater named by "Chehov". Next day we decided to visit his performance. That day they played Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free".


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Sabbath Dinner with Special guest Ilia Shatz - (11/20/2009)

We invited for our Sabbath Dinner famous Stage Director Ilia Shatz. We had a very interesting discussion. He invited us for his performance at he theater next day.


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Avdalaha - (11/14/2009)

It was our first Havdalah in Moishe House. We had all symbols of Havdalah: the braided candle, kiddush cup containing wine, and spice box containing sweet-smelling spices.


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House of Learning - (11/12/2009)

Для нас было важно, что-бы развитие нашего Moishe House проходило параллельно с духовным развитием его участников и гостей. Поэтому было принято решение создать программу "Дом Знаний" Программа "дом знаний" будет проводится в нашем Доме регулярно. Первое занятие 12 ноября мы решили посвятить теме Любовь и Семья по Танаху. Ведущая занятия, Белла - еврейский образователь из Днепропетровска (Украина) помогла нам раскрыть сложную и необъятную тему любви. Будем рады видеть вас снова


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Shabbat dinner - (11/6/2009)

We decided to make a family like dinner together with our friends.


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Schubert, Organ Hall, Alexander Paley - (10/29/2009)

It was amazing! I really did not expect that so many people would come on concert of classical music written by Schubert, played by Famous musician Alexander Paley from US. I loved that, eyes of our guests after performance were shining. It was worth it!!!!! After the concert We invited every one to the Moishe House, luckily we live not far from Organ Hall, tea with biscuits and very warm discussion. It was amazing.


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Creative Lab - (10/24/2009)

Современное искусство. Что это такое? Зачем это нужно? И как оно рождается? Об этом рассказал нам Александр Раевский, придя в качестве гостя в Мойше Хаус. Он поведал нам о своем творчестве, о том, чем живут современные молдавские художники и даже предложил поучаствовать в Московской биеналии, тема которой - Вorder Line. Тема раскрывается в сопоставлении. Концепт биеналии в границе : граница между днем и ночью, между странами, границы между людьми. А КАКИЕ ОНИ, ЭТИ ГРАНИЦЫ???


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Women's club + Men's club - (10/10/2009)

Because a Moishe House in Chisinau have representatives of both sexes, we decided to conduct a program aimed for both sexes(separately). Women's Club: We started with group cooking and discussing the latest gossips. We decided to devote this evening to Guinness book of records, and until dark laughed at ridiculous records of mankind. Men's Club: Everyone knows that the men are football fans. Especially if we are talking about match between Moldova and Israel. After the match the guys shouting "OLE - OLE - OLE, joined the women's company.As a conclusion we can say that women and men are created for each other. Т. к. в Мойше Хаус Кишинев есть представители обоих полов, Мы решили провести программу, направленную на то самое половое разделение. Женский клуб: Все началось с совместного приготовления ужина и обсуждения последних сплетен. Мы решили посвятить этот вечер книге рекордов Гиннеса и до темна смеялись над смешными рекордами человечества. Мужской клуб: Всем известно, что мужчины - любители футбола. Особенно если речь идет о матче между сборными Молдовы и Израиля. После матча ребята с крикаме "ОЛЕ - ОЛЕ - ОЛЕ" присоединились к женской компании. Как ни крути но мы созданы в комплекте.


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Moishe House art club. - (10/8/2009)

We got the idea to make art with mirrors, because This is an opportunity to meditate on its reflection and at the same time to create something beautiful by our hands. During the process of creation, we listened to an audiobook about Janusz Korczak. Нам пришла идея сделать арт с зеркалами, т.к. это возможность помедитировать над своим отражением и в тоже время сотворить что-то красивое своими рукам. Во время процесса творения мы слушали аудио-книгу о Януше Корчаке.


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Opening Party - Mezuzah Hanging - (10/4/2009)

Изначально мы поставили для себя цель- провести открытие так, как мы хотим видеть дальнейшее сушествование нашей маленькой Мойше семьи. Во-первых,- это еврейский дом, поэтому первым делом мы прибили мезузу. Во-вторых, Мойше Хаус- это место не только для наших идей, но и для самовыражения всех приглашенных. Поэтому гости могли оставить свои пожелания, поделится мыслями или просто покреативить на плакатах. Хороший стол, атмосфера взаимоуважения и исключительный позитив завершились импровизацией на музыкальных (подручных) инструментах. На выходе каждый гость получал пожелание, которое не оставляло его равнодушным, т.к. являлось ключем именно к его проблемам. Надеемся продолжать в том же ключе.