Thai Tidings

We've recently been called the Post-Modern Chabad House. But in the meantime, Moishe Houses are just where there's enough thirsty post-modern Jewish community to warrant founding a permanent House. Joel and I have been in Thailand and are about to spend our second Shabbas at a real-deal Chabad House. There's actually around 400 Jewish people in Bangkok, plus countless Israelis, who are also down here in Phuket. Chabad House has become the benchmark for Jewish travellers who want some yiddishkeit with their adventure. Looking around last week I wondered how many of them would enjoy the kind of Shabbat we might have at MoHoLo (shomrei shabbas but egalitarian and carlebach-y). Maybe we shall never know...who else has the will and might to set up a global network of this magnitude. Yet we heard already there are some Chabad Houses in India who have split from the Chabad majority and now run without authorisation.
As we Moishe Houseniks offered Sukkat Shalom at Burning Man, as an alternative to the mainstream 'Black Rock JCC', so I wonder whether we might have a colourful something to offer in other parts of the world, where there are still only black and white choices.