Issues and Opportunities with Moishe House OC

Hello everyone from sunny Orange County!

We now have been a Moishe House for a little more than two months, and it has been a great experience so far with lots of programs, fun, challenges, and even a few mistakes!

An issue we have run into recently has been a decline in our house meetings, and just overall communication between us as residents in general. When we first began running Moishe House Orange County, we were meeting once a week to check- in, evaluate past programs, house operations, plan for successful future programs, and just talk with each other in general.

Over the past month though, these meetings just sort of stopped happening. We could blame it on a number of things, (vacations, travel schedules, work, and/or being too laid back), but the bottom line is that these meetings just stopped happening. This resulted in a few bumps for past and upcoming programs and just hurt our overall communication as a House. We were then forced to scramble quickly and creatively to make ensure that some programs that we wanted to make happen actually happen. The decline in house meetings and overall communication unfortunately hurt our house dynamics and our goal of building Jewish community in Orange County.

This issue is something we are very aware of now and working hard to correct and remedy it. We are meeting next week (after we get back from our Labor Day Weekend vacations) to get back on track and reestablish a strong system of communication in our House between us residents, and begin meeting once a week to ensure we continue building community and having fun as a House! Although inner- House communication was an issue during August, we are channeling it in a positive way. This issue has created a wonderful opportunity for us to strengthen our communication, work as a more cohesive House and team, manage our time better, set weekly meetings, and stay organized and on track!

Have a meaningful, reflective month during these Days of Awe and we cannot wait to update you on our House and community in October!

L'shalom,

The Moishe House Orange County Team