Masha, MHSeattle 11-5-08

Things have really been in flux in this past month with Moishe House. With the change in leadership in the MH organization as we've been told that we need to really enforce the age limits in our communities, because of this we as a house have decided to significantly reduce our Moishe programming, and keep our all-inclusive programming as a part of the Ravenna Kibbutz project that we've been doing. I want to call it growing pains, but it's really more like shrinking pains, unfortunately. Yes, we are not happy with these new rules and I'm not afraid to admit it! Are other houses out there having the same problems? We would love to hear from you! It would be one thing if it was ok if the majority of the community were in the target demographic and it would be ok to have a some outliers, but to not have any outliers I think really limits the community and makes it hard to enforce. It's been frustrating to come up with a way to do this and to come up with new programming that would somehow appeal to the under 30s and not the over 30s. We've been having house meeting after house meeting, and things are slowly coming together, but it will take some more work...