Friday, February 8, 2008

Dealing with neighbours

Dear Moishe Housers,

I write to you all this month to request some advice on how an ambitious and lively Moishe House can best develop good relations with its neighbours.

Let me fill you in on our situation. Moishe House London is in a respectable residential area, semi detached (i.e. attached on one side but not on the other) and the neighbour we are attached to is due to give birth in 6 weeks. Oh and the other thing, she is a DJ on national radio and has already had a good at us live on air for waking her up with live saxaphone during our house warming party.

We want to carry on doing great and lively things but also want to respect their privacy and act with derech eretz. What can we do? Ideas I have just had off the top of my head:

Turn our Moishe House into a trapist silent retreat (how does a trapist Open Mike night sound)
Have all our events at 1pm on a Tuesday morning (surely our bet midrash is cool enough for people to take the day off work to attend)
Offer our neighbours free babysitting and dog walking services (could even become an event)

As you might be able to tell, we need a little bit of advice, so if any of you Moishe Housers have had to deal with similar circumstances let us know what worked and what didnt. Much appreciated

Over and out

Gideon

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tell your neighbour that you will :
Turn the music and "shouting"down by 11
Turn people out by 12 midnight
And do so.