A successful event - MH JHB

What makes a successful moishe event?
Besides the obvious good 'freebies' - the food, the entertainment, the comfortable surroundings - our Moishe Houseniks come for the people. We at Moishe house JHB believe that it is THIS that makes a successful event, more than any other.

We have people from different ends of the socio-economic spectrum, Jews from the religious to the completely atheist, with a healthy dose of secular 'traditional' Jews in between.

A good example of this kind of event was the annual Seder we have, and have held in Moishe House Cape Town (the house Daanie and i stayed in before moving to jo'burg) for a few years now.
A Pesach seder is something South African Jews almost all do with their families at home. The nature of one's 'home seder' is, as can be expected, linked to the type of Jewish environment that the family enjoys. Many young Jews find this kind of seder monotonous, boring, perhaps completely uninspiring. they simply can't connect to it. It was with this in mind that we started planning a '3rd seder', an event that encourages Jews from all walks of life to come together to celebrate being Jewish, to remember our history, and, most importantly, to find a connection to the chag of pesach that they didnt have before.
We form this connection by incorporating a theme for the seder - usually a group of people who, unlike us Jews, are not free. we explore their anguish, pain and suffering, and show solidarity with their cause.
the kind of people who are at our events offer diverse opinions, which has shown us that the Jewish nation is still dynamic, exciting and interesting to the wider community

We're realized that only through making events relevant, will people come to them, keep coming to them, and want more and more.
And that's why we're 'the best'! :)