Naima MH Ceveland!

Wow, October was a crazy month, full of holidays and autumn colors . I just can not believe that we started with a well deserved Yom Kippur breakfast, Sukkah building and had a cold sukkah shabbat/shabbat around the world, attended Simchas Torah services at a Chabad shul and then moved into a great Halloween Shabbat fallowed by a costume party. It could not have been more fun, but it would have been nice if the cold waited until after Sukkot. 

Because there are fewer holidays this month we will be doing some different activities. We will be participating in Food Not Bombs as a volunteer event, resuming karaoke night, and attending a Punk Show, among other things. Although we usually have around 10 people at each event, we are still looking for Jews in the neighborhood who need a community. 

The day after election day has arrived and I am so relived. I voted a month ago with Ohio early voting to try to prevent voting problems of the past few years. In the 2004 presidential election none of the Ohio absentee ballets from Cleveland were counted and ballets from entire neighborhoods (mostly African American) were thrown out. So, this election ran smoothly in comparison.

Last night we had an election watch party which was a lot of fun. No one knew if Ohio would be a red or a blue state, so we were flipping back and forth between CNN and FOX because they were calling states differently. As a house, we have been trying to stay away from political discussions at events and from doing any political activities or programing because people attending our Moishe House events have different political views. As you can imagine conversations became heated as the election drew near. At 11pm we were watching The Daily Show/Colbert Report Indecision 2008 Special on Comedy Central, aka the fake news, so when they announced that Obama was the president, we didn't believe it and had to change the channel to CNN. For me, the best part of the night was watching Obama's moving speech. 

-Naima MHCLE