New Beginnings

Hi there greater Moishe House community. This is Noam Reisner from the Silver Spring Moishe house. This is my first month in a new house and my first month as a Moishe House member, so lots of memorable stuff has been going on this month. We started off our events with an open house/meet and greet and that went pretty well, a bunch of people from the community came and being new to the community myself I got a real feel for how welcoming and lively the Silver Spring community really is. I was very impressed by the response we got, I expected us to start small with very few turnouts, but to the contrary we started off with a bang, and I only hope we grow from here. For just starting out and not having much experience everything turned out well. There was only a small hitch in one of our events when the Vulgar Bulgars' van broke down and they couldn't make it, but even then people weren't put off and we ended up having a lovely evening anyway, and we look forward to the night when we invite the Vulgar Bulgars back and have a wonderful concert. What I'm really looking forward to in the upcoming months is a sense of regularity, this month every event was a first, our first shabbat meal, our first barbecue, our first rosh chodesh event, and while firsts are nice I am waiting for the regularity of our monthly events, because I feel it is with regular events that communities really grow. Well, that's all I have on my mind for this month, I can't wait to get to July's events, especially the event most dear to my heart: Moishe House's "Tangentially Jewish Movie Night" where we watch movies with themes that are pertinent to the Jewish calendar, but are not "Jewish movies." So be sure to check in next month when I talk about that.