PressMoishe House has been featured in a variety of publications and journals... Foundation Cutting Wide Path Through Jewish Life - Jewish Week When Interland Corporation Founder Jim Joseph died in 2003, at the age of 68, few people outside San Francisco and the real estate field had heard of him.
Today, less than a decade later, the words “Jim Joseph” are among the most frequently uttered syllables in the American Jewish education world, at least among those responsible for fundraising.
Empowering Young Leaders in a 2.0 World - The Jerusalem Post Do you know Yitzy? In an old Jewish joke, he meets Monday nights with a group of elderly Jewish men. Usually, they talk about world affairs, and the tone is often negative. But one day Yitzy shocks his friends: “I’ve become an optimist,” he declares.
They are stunned, until Benny speaks up: “If you’re an optimist, Yitzy, why do you look so worried.”
And Yitzy says: “You think it’s easy being an optimist?” I SMILE because I know the feeling, especially when I ponder where the Jewish community will find its next generation of leaders. But the fact is, I am an optimist, and here’s why. The House that Moishe Built - Haaretz It's Friday evening. A group of young people gather in the living room of a spacious home in Silver Spring, Maryland, light Sabbath candles and sing hymns in Hebrew. Three are still busy in the kitchen, preparing the Sabbath-eve meal, featuring baked fish, guacamole and watermelon slices. After the ritual hand-washing, wine glasses are passed around. Some of the 17 people there don skullcaps for the blessing, which ends with an impressive "Amen."
But all of this is not necessarily about religion. Young Innovator Discuss Jewish Future - Ynetnews.com What’s the best way to build and strengthen the Jewish future? The answers are coming to Israel in early July, when 120 Jewish business and social entrepreneurs, innovators, thinkers and artists from all over the world — from San Salvador and Beijing, Los Angeles and Copenhagen and beyond — converge on Kfar Maccabiah, in Ramat Gan, for the ROI Global Summit for Young Jewish Innovators. Moishe House Pays Your Rent? Oy Vey! - Rented Spaces How would you like a generous benefactor to pay a portion of your rent?
Fortunate groups of 20-something Jews across the country enjoy just that, in a Real World-styled living arrangement. The New York Times reported today on Moishe House, an innovative idea started in 2006 to support young Jews - a model that other religious, ethnic, or social groups might consider duplicating. Kibbutz-style living fills a void for twentysomethings at Moishe House in Cleveland Heights - The Cleveland Plain Dealer CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Residents of Moishe House learn to live together, laugh together, split the rent and, above all, share the faith.
That goal puts a premium on event planning, on drawing kindred spirits to their humble home.
On a recent afternoon, Raychel Bone, Sam Selker, Naima Cohn and Taliesin Haugh -- all of whom are in their early 20s -- sat on their front porch in the Coventry neighborhood of Cleveland Heights and mulled the surprise successes. The Importance of Community in Prayer - New Voices Last week, I began discussing the importance of communal living in confronting problems of social justice. But communities are also important in our individual access to spiritual energy.
What do I mean? It used to be the case that Jewish men in Eastern Europe, my ancestral land of origin, davened (not women – Judaism has seen its fair share of gender inequality). They would go to the synagogue and pray, or they would pray at home, or in a friend’s living room, wherever they could find a minyan, or prayer quorum. These prayers would contain an element of musical and textual spontenaity. Irene Heskes, a historian who specialized in Jewish music, offers this quote about davening: “in its classic sense – spontaneous, highly vocal, motivated by prayer,” including the independence of an individual in a self-established state of privacy, in the midst of a minyan. I would form my own personal connection with G-d, and you, praying beside me, would do the same, and we would each be vocalizing at different paces, and we would each be inspiring the other to achieve a spiritual awareness that we would then carry throughout the day. New Hampshire Public Radio - COLLECTIVE LIVING FOR YOUNG JEWS Plenty of reality programs and sitcoms have portrayed twenty-something housemates doing crazy things. But in nearly thirty houses around the world, a nonprofit benefactor called Moishe House is doing something even stranger that anything you’ve seen on TV: paying a large chunk of the rent, and providing monthly stipends for entertaining. In exchange for the financial lift, the young Jewish adults who live there create programs to build an “open and welcoming” community for their peers. The Four-Bedroom Kibbutz - The New York Times REBECCA KARP, Brian Cohen, Danielle Hardoon and Alissa Worly, all of whom are in their 20s, share a spacious red-brick house in Philadelphia. It rents for $3,200 a month. East Bay's "Making Waves" makes a huge splash - The j The USS Hornet is a big ship. It had to be to hold the more than 1,000 people attending Making Waves, a titanic community event sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay and its Jewish Community Foundation.
Held Jan. 31 on the Hornet — a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked at Alameda Point — Making Waves brought together people from every synagogue, Jewish day school, JCC and Jewish agency on the starboard side of the bay. Though attendees did fill out fundraising pledge cards, the more apparent goal of the event was to celebrate the East Bay Jewish community. All by themselves - JTNews The Jewish Voice of Washington On the evening of Dec. 26, 15 Ravenna Kibbutz residents and regulars gathered in the living room of House Aleph to reflect on the impact the Moishe House organization, which has helped to fund the Ravenna Kibbutz since it first opened in 2007, has had on their home lives, social lives, and Jewish lives. The House That David Build - The Jewish Journal of Greater LA David Cygielman was a sophomore at UC Santa Barbara, a business major and the energetic president of the school’s Hillel, when he found out his father didn’t have long to live. Tough Times: Young Jews in the Stormy Economy - jewishinstlouis.org Adam Pasch, 26
Adam grew up in Ballwin and was bar-mitzvahed at United Hebrew. He attended George Mason University, but in his senior year decided that he no longer wished to major in biology. He transferred to University of Missouri, and graduated in 2006 with a degree in Business Management.
Adam occasionally makes his way to Moishe House, an international organization that creates or fosters programs that caters to post-college Jewish young adults. Roommates Create Jewish Center - The Orange County Register LAGUNA BEACH – Rae Gross, Adam Riley and Justin Young spend about 50 hours a month planning and hosting events for other young Jews, but they don't have an agenda – they just want to hang out.
The three live in South Laguna Beach and form the Orange County branch of Moishe House, an international program that began in 2006 to bolster community among Jews aged 21 to 30. With a rent subsidy and a programming budget, Gross, Riley and Young host about eight events a month, ranging from having people over to watch a baseball game, wine tasting or cooking a Sabbath dinner. Jewish Group Persuades Graduates to Stay in New Orleans - New Orleans Times-Picayune A few months ago, Galia Aharoni, 25, was well into her final year of law school at Tulane University and going back and forth about her future. Should she stay in New Orleans or take her law degree back home to the West Coast — or perhaps to New York?
'Chabad House without Chabad' - The Jerusalem Post It's just another street in another residential neighborhood of London. From the outside at least, the semidetached house on the right looks like just any other home, set apart by little else than the coat of bright yellow paint covering the walls. The tropical foliage of the large banana tree fighting for space in the front garden temporarily disrupts the uniformity of the identical deciduous trees lining the street, not to mention looking a little out of place beneath the gray British summer skies. Moishe House! New York, Beijing, and now Denver - Intermountain Jewish News IN the semi-darkness, there are no Stars of David or “Shalom” greeting mats distinguishing the basement apartment on Washington Park’s western edge.
A painted sunflower left by previous tenants is the lone indicator that something warm and welcoming beckons inside the spacious green-walled kitchen.
Moishe House Denver, which opened Oct. 1, offers Shabbat dinners, social interaction and tikkun olam projects for underserved Jewish adults ages 21-30. An Alien in St. Louis - Jewish in St. Louis Recently, while babysitting for an Israeli family here in St. Louis, their young child tried to tell me about a beloved TV show. The child kept using a Hebrew word with which I was unfamiliar. The word chai-zar, an alien, literally translated means a foreign being.
I couldn’t help but identify with this newly discovered word. I moved to St. Louis almost three months ago, and though I am not a small green Martian, I sometimes feel like one, beamed here from a different place, observing the locals.
Here is what I have observed about the St. Louis Jewish community and what it’s like to find your way in a new city. A Part of Somethign Bigger - New Voices Back home in Dayton, Ohio, the Jewish community is tiny. The only way to engage in that community is to go to services and see the same people over and over again. As for the services themselves, you have three choices–reform, conservative, or Chabad.
Here in Chicago, though, it’s quite different. My college campus has as many congregations as Dayton did, and there’s no telling how many exist in the rest of the city. (Well, there are probably statistics on that, but I won’t bore you with those.) No Place Like Home: Scaling Up a Venture to Success - PresenTense When I first approached four friends from high school about turning their home into a center for Jewish life, I certainly did not think it would spread to 28 cities across five continents so quickly.
It was 2006, and I was having dinner with friends. All were in their 20s, all very happily identified as Jews. All had large groups of Jewish friends, despite being uninvolved in organized Jewish life. And the idea came up: if I could subsidize their rent and give them a small program budget, they would turn their house into a community center for Jewish adults who have finished college but have yet to move on to having families. As the Executive Director of the Forest Foundation at the time, my foundation was able to cover 85 percent of the budget— making the idea a proven reality, and leaving us with the question: How do we expand on a good idea? Moishe House Opens Headquarters in Oakland - The J Moishe House, an organization that provides a communal living experience for 20-something Jews, has moved its headquarters in Santa Barbara to its first ever office, located in Oakland.
“We’ve been operating as an island,” said Executive Director David Cygielman. “The move will get us more engaged in a larger Jewish community and provide an opportunity for our staff to work together.” Moishe House LA Opens - The Los Angeles Blueprint It’s got to be the dream of every young 20 and 30-something to be told, “Find a group of like-minded colleagues, find a home for yourselves to live in, put together a few programs for your peers and in return we’ll provide you with a rent subsidy and a modest budget to run those programs.
Well, that’s exactly what Moishe House has been doing since 2006, when it first opened its doors in Oakland, California. Founded by philanthropist Morris Bear Squire and Forest Foundation Executive Director David Cygielman, today Moishe House boasts 28 houses in eight countries. Each house has its own unique slant, but the overarching umbrella is the concept of allowing young Jews to create their own community and their own curriculum. Succot, Beijing-style - The Jewish Chronicle
How easy is it to live as a Jew in the People’s Republic? We talk to expats in the Chinese capital
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Young Jews celebrate Succot amid the Beijing rooftops with a Succah made Chinese style, from PVC pipes and metal grating..
Young Jews celebrate Succot amid the Beijing rooftops with a Succah made Chinese style, from PVC pipes and metal grating.
It is Friday night and more than 100 people are crammed around three long trestle-tables singing grace after meals. A Shabbat meal of soup, challah, hummus and roast chicken has just been eaten, and the atmosphere is jovial as the rabbi delivers the after-dinner speech. But this is no ordinary Friday night at your local community centre. This group of Jews is eclectic — young and old, Orthodox and Reform, and hailing from many different countries. These are the Jews of Beijing.
A thriving Jewish community has developed in the Chinese capital over recent years. Approximately 1,800 Jewish people, from all over the world, live and travel through the city each year and a vibrant social scene has developed among younger members of the population. In Mexico City, insular community begins to reach out - JTA MEXICO CITY (JTA) -- In the final days of September, Alan Grabinsky and Paul Feldman moved into an apartment on a quiet circle in this city's Condesa neighborhood, establishing only the second Latin American outpost of the global network of Jewish residences known as Moishe Houses.
In their new home, Grabinsky and Feldman will organize social gatherings for Jews in their 20s and 30s while creating an inclusive hub for post-collegiates in a country where Jews typically marry young and settle in the heavily Jewish suburbs in the western part of Mexico City. Citizens group to boost Philadelphia riverfronts - The Philadelphia Inquirer Seeking clout in unity, the newly formed Coalition for Philadelphia's Riverfronts is an alliance of more than three dozen civic, neighborhood, governmental, faith-based, and business groups dedicated to revitalizing the city's waterfront areas through the creation of a comprehensive rivers' edge greenway.
"Riverfront groups generally have advocated for a local portion or a section" of the rivers, said coalition coordinator Rachel Vassar. What distinguishes the coalition, she said, is that it brings together diverse constituencies, from South Philadelphia's Passyunk Square Civic Association to Port Richmond's Friends of Pulaski Park. From the Jewish service organization Moishe House to the Philadelphia Anglers' Club. Koshari, kugel and a new way to celebrate the holidays in Brookline - The Brookline Tab Laden with bundles of kugel, challah and koshari, several dozen 20-somethings filed into a Beacon Street rowhouse last Monday for an unusual feast.
They weren’t necessarily celebrating the same holiday, but that didn’t stop them from doing it together.
“We see this as a really powerful counterforce to divisiveness, to stereotypes, to fear,” Michelle Sternthal told the crowd of young Jews and Muslims packed into a small room at the Boston Workmen’s Circle. “This is just the beginning.” The House that Moishe Built - HaAretz It's Friday evening. A group of young people gather in the living room of a spacious home in Silver Spring, Maryland, light Sabbath candles and sing hymns in Hebrew. Three are still busy in the kitchen, preparing the Sabbath-eve meal, featuring baked fish, guacamole and watermelon slices. After the ritual hand-washing, wine glasses are passed around. Some of the 17 people there don skullcaps for the blessing, which ends with an impressive "Amen."
But all of this is not necessarily about religion.
Moishe House is Helping Me Grow - Washington Jewish Week Israel is on my mind. Again. I just got back (well, a few weeks ago) from another trip there, this time for a month (not long enough!) as a staff member for a B'nai B'rith Youth Organization teen tour. I am grateful to be able to experience Israel from a completely different perspective and in an entirely different role from one trip to the next.
Surprisingly (to myself, although I don't really know why, looking back at the trips I've been on), this trip included a lot that I've never before seen or done. It was really great on both a personal level and a community level to have so many new experiences myself and to see and participate in parts of Israel that were almost as new for me as they were for some of the others. (I say "almost" because I appreciate now how much of a difference is made by basic surroundings in how familiar or foreign an experience can feel; and now that I am familiar with Israel, the newness of the never-before-seen-or-done is much less jarring. From my own experience, I can appreciate and relate to the fact that, whereas this was cool new stuff for me, for some of them it was more like cool new stuff on Mars.) Moishe House’s Creative, Communal Living - LA Jewish Journal When Donna Lavian attended a housewarming barbecue at the new Moishe House of Los Angeles last month, it was her first Jewish event since moving to Los Angeles two years ago.
“I just never heard of any [events] my close friends were going to. I wouldn’t go on my own, and I never felt I needed it,” the 23-year-old preschool teacher said.
In fact, the barbecue didn’t feel like a typical Jewish event so much as just a fun, casual, homegrown party. Hot dogs, hamburgers and chicken sizzled on the grill. A resident DJ (an actual resident of the house) spun electronic music from the balcony overlooking the backyard, while Jews in their 20s and 30s smoked a hookah and gulped down cold ones. It's the Real World...Moishe House! - Oy!Chicago They all have full-time jobs, but for the past 2 years, the five people who founded Chicago’s first Moishe House have been turning a shared passion for all things Jewish into about seven – and sometimes more – events a month.
Open to the larger Jewish community, Moishe Houses are ways for young Jews to get in touch with their heritage in an agenda-free environment. Since the organization’s founding in 2006, the organization has grown to 18 houses in the United States and eight around the world, from Beijing to Warsaw. Moishe House New Orleans on PBS - Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly BOB ABERNETHY, host: Four years ago this weekend, Hurrican Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. In this neighborhood in New Orleans, Broadmoor, the houses were in 8 feet of water. Since then, thousands of young volunteers from all over the country, from many faith traditions, have gone to New Orleans to help with the clean-up and rebuilding. Many chose to move there. We talked with residents at the Jewish social service organization, Moishe House.
JONATHAN GRABOIES: Moishe House is a national organization. It says that the mission of the houses that they have throughout the world is “tikkun olam,” which is “repairing the world. How Social Networking Impacts The Jewish Community - The Baltimore Jewish Times For many, social media is the means to an end, with the online experience translating to opportunities to meet, talk and organize in the real world. That’s the goal of Moishe House, which credits its use of social media for its success in seeding mini-Jewish community centers around the world.
“By the end of the summer, we’ll have 28 houses in nine countries,” says co-founder and executive director David Cygielman, who three years ago started offering rent subsidies to young Jewish roommates to use their house as neighborhood centers for Jewish programs, from Shabbat dinners to Purim parties. Part of the agreement was for the roommates to post recaps and pictures of their events on the Moishe House blog site, as well as to start one of their own. The changing face--and faces-- of New Orleans - The Times-Picayune The cultural impact of the post-Katrina transplants can be found in various corners of the city. Hispanic food sections in Rouses and Winn-Dixie. Street-side taco trucks. An active neighborhood revitalization effort in Broadmoor that joins together natives with a strong corps of newcomers and their imported ideas.
Working with two roommates, Gill Benedek, 24, has helped turn a Broadmoor home, part of a network called Moishe House, into a gathering place for the influx of young Jewish professionals who have relocated to the city.
Nearly 1,000 Jewish newcomers -- defined as those who have never lived here or have been away for more than six years -- have moved to New Orleans since Katrina, according to Michael Weil, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. Moishe House Mazel Tovs - The Jewish Review Moishe House founding resident Matt Peterson, 24, was one of 10 recent college graduates nationwide named as fellows in Insight: the Schusterman Fellowship for Jewish Community.
Peterson will move to Washington, D.C., in September for this 22-month fellowship, which is a project of the Center for Leadership Initiatives. There were 160 applicants for the 10 positions. Food for Thought and Justice - Washington Jewish Week Barbecues at the Silver Spring Moishe House are nothing unusual. The five 20-something Moishe House residents regularly host friends, neighbors and others throughout the cookout season for get-togethers that are more than just gorge-athons. Each is also a Jewish-themed presentation with an important lesson to teach.
On this steamy Sunday afternoon, the theme was social justice ��at least as it applies to food. More than 70 guests filled the front and backyard of the four-story Mississippi Avenue home, to enjoy a side order of gastronomic stewardship with their hamburgers, peaches and corn-on-the-cob. Moishe House residents dubbed it a "food justice" barbecue. Moishe House has become a nexus for young Jews working in New Orleans recovery - The Times-Picayune It was still early in the evening; the potluck dinner of quiche, pasta and wine was spread out in the living room of the comfortable Broadmoor house when one of the guests, Sami Slovy, ritually lit two candles to welcome the Jewish Sabbath.
Two dozen guests watched, almost all young adults -- some Jewish, some not. The Friday night mood was relaxed, the dress way informal: shorts welcome; shoes optional.
Gill Benedek, 24, a resident of the house and thus one of the hosts for the evening, led those who knew the Hebrew prayer in a slightly rusty version of the kiddush, another Sabbath welcoming ritual. About half the group chanted with him; the rest watched quietly. Moishe House for Young Adults to Open in Denver - The Intermountain Jewish News
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Moishe House, a network of 25 homes serving as grassroots community centers for young Jewish adults ages 21-30, will open a new center in Denver by the end of this year.
Moishe House opened its first house in 2006 and has since expanded to nine countries. It offered 2,073 programs in 2008.
“Our experience with this age group is that they are excited about the opportunity to create Jewish communities for themselves and their peers,” says Moishe House executive director David Cygielman. Picture Of Young Innovators Emerging - The Jewish Week The business of grooming and funding young Jewish social entrepreneurs and innovators — essentially the search for the next big Jewish idea — is now a big one.
Incubators like Bikkurim, funds like Slingshot and Natan as well as gatherings in Jerusalem like the PresenTense Institute and the ROI Summit have in recent years helped to spawn a thriving cottage industry to support and mentor these big doers and thinkers.
Surveys have revealed that there are more than 300 new Jewish startups in the U.S. alone in the last decade with operating budgets of under $2 million. These startups, a $500 million enterprise, are engaging close to 400,000 Jews. Moishe House getting a $1.25 million grant - The J Weekly The Jim Joseph Foundation recently announced a $1.25 million grant to Moishe House, an organization that provides a communal living experience for 20-something Jews.
The grant by the foundation, which is dedicated to promoting Jewish youth education, will come over the next four years to maintain the houses, support programming and hire Jewish educators. This will coincide with an outside evaluation of the program’s effectiveness, and will provide a major boost to an already vibrant community.
Welcome to the Ultimate Blended Jewish Family - The Jewish Chronicle A group of young people from across the religious spectrum have set up home in an experiment in communal living
Shaking our shakers and jingling our bells, we try to keep up with the rhythm of our session leader. Sitting in a candle-lit circle, we are learning how to be “drummers of Zion” with Akiva the Believer, the soulful percussionist whose musical companions have ranged from the singing rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach, to Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary. Moishe House Receives New $1.25m. Grant from Jim Joseph and Schusterman - eJewishphilanthropy Moishe House, a network of 25 homes throughout the world that serve as grassroots community centers for the young adult Jewish community ages 21-30, announced yesterday that they have received a four-year $1.25 million grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF). This funding, along with a grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (CLSFF) made in September, 2008 will be used to enhance Moishe House’s core operations, expand its reach to a total of 34 cities over the next four years, and hire a full-time Jewish educator to support house residents. Schusterman And Jim Joseph Foundations Lead The Way For Moishe House To Expand Its Programming - Official Wire Moishe House, a network of 25 homes throughout the world that serve as grassroots community centers for the young adult Jewish community ages 21-30, announced today that they have received a four-year $1.25 million grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF). This funding, along with a grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (CLSFF) made in September, 2008 will be used to enhance Moishe House’s core operations, expand its reach to a total of 34 cities over the next four years, and hire a full-time Jewish educator to support house residents.
Bill Moyers Journal - PBS Members of Moishe House Boston featured in a report on PBS about responses to the foreclosure crisis. Where Young Jews Commune - The Washington Post After college, Eli Wald spent a year in Israel before moving to Washington to work for the American Jewish Committee. Now 24, he grew up a devout Jew, worshiping at synagogue. He still sports a silver charm around his neck that is adorned with the names of Jewish angels.
But Wald said he began to feel "boxed out" of life at the synagogue and its social gatherings as he entered his 20s. He was looking for something more "cool, relaxed. Moishe House Birkat HaChamah - Washington Post via JewSchool.com So many Jewschool friends in this video: Moishe House Silver Spring leads a birkat hachamah early in the morning on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as videoed and photographed by the Washington Post: Avi Chai announces its genius grants - JTA.org
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced its second round of Avi Chai Fellows, which last year it billed as essentially a Jewish MacArthur grant.
The grants, which are for $225,000 over three years, are intended to spur innovation by investing in people as opposed to programming.
This year, Avi Chai gave its fellowships to Dr. Erica Brown, David Cygielman, Aliza Kline, Daniel Libenson, Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum.
The 25 Houses Of Moishe, And Counting - The Jewish Week Establishment organizations should take note of a little-known but international phenomenon in communal living among Jewish twentysomethings called Moishe House.
Professional executives and big-time philanthropists would be wise to explore, especially now, how a tiny operation could have such a wide reach, touching Jewish lives in important ways while spending relatively little money. Israel, Batman, and "The Agents of Chaos" - The New Jersey Jewish News Note: The following article originally appeared on the Moishe House Blog website, before being picked up by the New Jersey Jewish News.
Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I have an unusual, perhaps bordering on unhealthy, obsession with Batman. When I was a child, Batman was a super-cool crime fighter, but not much else. As an adult, I still think he is the coolest crime fighter around, and I challenge anyone who disagrees with me. But in today’s world, what he stands for has taken on a whole new meaning.
Winter Gets Warmer at Hillel - The Daily Pennsylvanian Students made the lives of underprivileged Philadelphia residents a little bit warmer this past Sunday night at the Hillel Soup Kitchen.
Over 80 guests showed up at Hillel's Warm Winter Evening this weekend to take part in a charity dinner and raffle put on by the Hillel Soup Kitchen and the University City Hospitality Coalition. Watching the inauguration from Moishe House Beijing - Jewish Telegraphic Agency early 30 people gathered in my apartment, also known as Moishe House Beijing, to watch the live, sometimes stuttering feed of Obama's inauguration. There was a young Israeli couple, a Swede, an errant Irish girl and the rest were Americans.
Given the expectations resting on the day and the speech to come, the invocation by Pastor Rick Warren was like getting a root canal before a birthday party. Even as he was striking a note of communion – "Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but by our commitment to freedom and justice for all" – the rhetoric was couched in Christian scripture, a fact not lost on the mostly Jewish crowd, which got in plenty of snarky comments about church-state separation.
Moishe House in St. Louis is Home - jewishinstlouis.org So you’re a young Jewish adult, fresh out of college. All the opportunities of the world are at your fingertips. The chances and risks you can take are limitless. You’re working hard, and finally, truly independent from mom and dad. But the end of the week rolls around, and there’s a new problem: Where do you go for Shabbos? L.A.'s Top Ten Mensches - The Jewish Journal Gabriel Halimi: Partying For a Cause
It was a stuttering problem that turned Gabriel Halimi into a mensch.
"I had a really bad stutter when I was kid," the now 27-year-old recalled recently. "My therapist said I needed to speak up in class and try to get myself to talk more, and then I started falling into leadership activities because it forced me to talk."
Portland's Moishe House Wow's Regional Director - The Jewish Review “I’m completely impressed,” said Moishe House Western Regional Director Summer Shapiro after spending four days at Portland’s 1˝-month-old gathering spot for young Jewish adults. Moishe House takes Grassroots Approach - St. Louis Jewish Light Last spring, Rabbi Hershey Novack, director of Washington University's Chabad on Campus, presented Yoni Sarason with an intriguing opportunity. As Rabbi Novack explains, "Early in the summer, I was among a select group invited to participate in the ROI120 Global Summit for young Jewish innovators in Jerusalem. I learned about Moishe House and immediately knew that Yoni could bring this to life." MH Silver Spring ont he Radio - Schmoozin With Schmuel Moishe House Silver Spring made an appearance on the radio show "Schmoozin with Schmuel...
The website updates the radio show regularly, so the show is file number: sws20081123. Moishe/Kavod takes a "Toxics Tour" - The Jewish Advocate
Young adults from Moishe House Boston: Kavod Jewish Social Justice House and GesherCity Boston braved the cold to join Alternatives for the Community and the Environment on a "Toxics Tour." The group canvassed the Dudley Square neighborhood of Roxbury to learn about local environmental hazards and... New Orleans Top 40 under 40 - bestofneworleans.com Jon Graboyes and Gill Benedek both moved to New Orleans after college, and found a need for a place where young Jews could meet for Shabbas meals, holidays and just hanging out. The result was Moishe House, a residence in the Broadmoor neighborhood that's become an informal center for Jewish celebrations and socializing.
2007-08 Roslyn Z. Wolf Cleveland Fellow Creates Young Jewish Community in the Old Country - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee The tables of 24-year-old, California-native Aliyah’s apartment were set, the lights dim, music played. "It’s not every day that I am able to host a traditional Chanukat Bayit (house dedication) complete with Havdallah ceremony, mezuzah posting, and discussions about the future of the home," said the animated young leader. The Chanukat Bayit she organized with her roommate literally inaugurated their Minsk apartment as the new local meeting place for Jewish youth. Her inspiration came from the international Moishe House model of "grassroots community centers that cater towards the twenty-something post-college Jewish population." Now, Minsk’s first-ever Moishe House—the 24th of its kind in the world—is Aliyah’s legacy in a burgeoning community. Moishe House: Building in Beijing - The Jewish Daily Forward My roommates and I built the only rooftop sukkah in Beijing, 16 floors above the traffic on Second Ring Road, overlooking Sinopec headquarters and the small Olympic park next door. It was a true Chinese sukkah — made in part with PVC pipes and metal wire from a local construction market — and we were nervous that our neighbors would assume we were building some kind of permanent structure and report us to the Public Security Bureau. Moishe House Founder Morris B. Squire Honored in "Forward 50" - The Jewish Daily Forward Morris Squire
While the under-40 set is generally perceived as the force behind creative, cutting-edge Jewish philanthropy, Morris Squire is turning that perception on its head. The man behind Moishe Houses — one of the most thinking-out-of-the-box Jewish philanthropic endeavors of the last decade — is an 85-year-old philanthropist, former psychologist and painter who has funneled millions of dollars into his Jewish communal living houses. In 2006, while other donors were funding trips to Israel, Squire — who made his money as the owner of health-care facilities — came up with an idea: Subsidize the rent on a house for a bunch of 20-something Jews, give them a monthly program budget and let them do the rest. House Proud - Nextbook
College grads nostalgic for Hillel can apply to start their own Moishe House, a subsidized "communal hub" hosting Sabbath dinners, book clubs, social action, and poker games, reports Sue Fishkoff. Moishe House Boston on CNN - CNN Click this link to see video of Moishe House Boston/Kavod House on CNN Moishe House calls Hoboken Home - The Jewish Standard At Hoboken’s Moishe House, three’s company, but the doors are always open for a crowd. Besides being the home of three friends — Joshua Einstein, Shira Huberman, and David Rosen, as well as a playful white ferret named Perry — the house is an experimental center for a self-led group of post-collegiate Jews in their 20s and early 30s. Slingshot Propels Bay Area Jewish Groups to Prominence - The J As further proof that the Bay Area is one of the hippest places to be Jewish in America, nine organizations with local ties made it into this year’s edition of Slingshot, an annual directory of the country’s 50 most innovative Jewish groups. Moishe House Providence opens for young Jews - The Jewish Voice & Herald PROVIDENCE — Nathaniel Lepp and Jesse Stout have filled a void.
These two young professionals recognized a problem in their community and sought to address it by opening Moishe House Providence.
Upon college graduation, Lepp, currently a graduate student at Brown University and Stout, executive director of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, recognized that the Jewish infrastructure they had centered their lives around had crumbled. As they left the education system, no organization reached out to them and showed them a way to continue the Jewish component of their lives. Breaking Bread on the West Side - Chicago Journal Last Friday night, a group of twenty-somethings gathered for dinner in Wicker Park. The evening had the earmarks of a typical urban dinner party-mainly vegetarian cuisine (tofu, peanut noodles, stuffed mushrooms), opened wine bottles, a steady stream of guests bearing covered dishes.
Moishe House Grows - Jewish Review Even before moving into Moishe House as its third housemate, Jeremy Rogers, 26, has brought his own twist to the events the house will offer each month for young Jewish adults. The New and Hip Jewish London - E Jewish Philanthropy With 80% of the world Jewish population living in either Israel or the U.S., we sometimes forget our community not only exists, but thrives, in places other than Jerusalem, L.A. and N.Y.C. One distant outpost is London. Here, just a few short weeks before 2008 begins, I encountered both new and exciting initiatives (by and for a new generation of U.K. Jewry) taking root. Here is just one. Long journey from California to Minsk - Cleveland Jewish News When California resident Aliyah Phillips first applied to spend a year abroad living, working and planning programming in a developing Jewish community, she requested an assignment in warm climes, such as Turkey, Morocco or India. Moishe House Minsk: The First Moishe House in the Former Soviet Union - Minsk Jewish Campus Imagine a warm and pluralistic Jewish communal house where two friendly young women offer themed Shabbat dinners, Shabbat afternoon board games, Israeli movie nights, a Rosh Chodesh women's group, challah–baking lessons, outings to ice–skating rinks and museum galleries, and many more activities aimed towards Jewish young adults. Thanks to a new initiative, Moishe House, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Roslyn Z. Wolf Fellow Aliyah Phillips, and Hillel Minsk's Natallia Kirykovich, have created such a house right in the heart of Minsk, Belarus. In order to celebrate the inception of this project, Natallia and Aliyah hosted a chanukat bayit, or house dedication party, on Saturday, September 27th. Housemates set for a reality experience - The Jewish Chronicle FORGET the Big Brother house. A group of five young Jews is now planning to set up home together in North-West London, after a California-based Jewish trust agreed to provide funding for their “ideal Jewish communal space” where they will live as a “hub” for the local young-adult community. Silver Spring's 'Moishe House' Finding new ways to be Jewish - Washington Jewish Week Getting to live in a house that serves as a social hub for young Jewish adults, and having some of your rent paid for, too? Take This Real World: Women to Explore Real Jewish Life in the Real World - Jewish Exponent Becky Coren, Rachel Vassar and Rebecca Karp are sitting at a wine bar, not far from their new Center City digs. Young Folks' Home - News America Media A few years ago, Hayward native David Cygielman was running the kids’ services program at Santa Barbara Hillel. Cygielman was daydreaming at the lunch table when he suddenly realized he had company. It was that old man who always came to services. The two struck up a lively conversation and had a few laughs before the old man turned serious. Moishe House goes local : Address for ‘nonaligned’ young Jews - Washington Jewish Week Take one night of Israeli films, a few games of sheshbesh (backgammon) and a weekly Shabbat potluck, and what do you get? Four guys in a three-story house in the District's multiethnic Adams Morgan neighborhood whipping up a new ethnic recipe for Jews in their 20s. Funding Fuels Group Homes’ Growth - The Jewish Daily Forward Call it a throwback to communal housing in Berkeley in the 1960s. Or a Jewish take on the long-running MTV reality show “The Real World,” where a bunch of strangers in their 20s are housed under one roof. Or something in between. Go East, young men: Moishe hits Berkeley - The Jewish News Weekly Brady Gill is going to try to think outside the box — that is, he’s thinking about unpacking his things and moving into his new place. Play poker, feel Jewish: Houses build identity via communal living - Union For Reform Judaism SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 (JTA) -- Say you're a few years out of college, living with friends and working in a low-paying job for some do-good organization. You don't go to synagogue but you miss the camaraderie of your college Hillel, and you like to invite people over for Shabbat meals. Jews, Muslims work to keep local dialogue going - Boston Globe Local Jews and Muslims are working hard to keep their interfaith groups alive and communications open as the Middle East conflict deepens. 'Moishe Houses' provides post-Hillel hangout for 20-somethings - JewishJournal.com Say you're a few years out of college, living with friends and working in a low-paying job for some do-good organization. You don't go to synagogue, but you miss the camaraderie of your college Hillel, and you like to invite people over for Shabbat meals.
In Hoboken, an experiment for post-college Jews - New Jersey Jewish News A radical secularist, a Chabad enthusiast, and a Conservative Jew walk into a Hoboken apartment together. They all consider themselves at home.
This is no joke: It’s Moishe House, the latest experiment in Jewish community-building. |