This year, in addition to our regular Purim celebration, Moishe House Boston teamed up with one of our favorite organizations - the Boston Workmen's Circle -- to help organize and promote their second annual Gragger/Noisemaker Purim party. The party this year was focused on housing justice, and worked to raise money and recruit for the affordable housing campaign Moishe House Boston has been helping to lead for the past two years. I missed the party last year, so even though I had talked to loads of Moishe House people who were helping with set up or practicing for the spiel/skit, I was pretty awed when I arrived this year and experienced the amazing creativity and turnout for this party.
I showed up, in my cowgirl get-up, to find 400 people dressed in every sort of costume, including what felt like everyone who had ever been to Moishe House Boston. One our leaders, Michelle, who helps lead our affordable housing campaign was the star of the Purim Spiel (skit), which was a home-made piece of radical theater in which Esther (Michelle) had to save the Jews of Shushan from losing their homes to foreclosure, due to the evil advice of financial manager, Haman, advisor to the Bank of Shushan's CEO, Ahashverosh. Another leader, Joseph, served as one of the night's two MC's/radical cheerleaders, dressed in a hot pink mini-skirt.
After the spiel, a troop of hulahoopers did an elaborate show, then there was an Ethiopian band, and then there was a wild dance party. I often have a lot of fun at Moishe House, but it was exciting to see people from so many different parts of our work all dancing and having fun together. Yasher koach to the Workmen's Circle and Moishe House folks who put this on - I am definitely coming next year!
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