Hey guys! First off, I'de like to wish everyone a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year! Hope everyone had a good time bringing in the new year and is ready to take on whatever 2009 has in store for us!
Shana and I have been working hard on spreading the word about Moishe House around Dallas and have had a lot of positive feedback! We were in the Texas Jewish Post newspaper which definitely sparked a lot of people's interests in M.H!
I was supposed to be leaving for Israel yesterday with one of the Birthright groups...however, because of the recent events going on there, my family did not want me going (actually they gave me no other option!) sooo... I will no longer be out of town this month which means January should be a good month M.H.D...So i guess thats the upside of the situation :)
All my best !
-Sima
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
David Persyko, MHSF
Moishe House SF Haiku Collection
jewish peeps hangin
kosher food or otherwise
we make it happen
did you hear the door?
are you sure that was the door?
good shabbas, come in!
no, not a temple
we do a different thing
we be secular
all around the world
and in my city also
jews get familiar
jewish peeps hangin
kosher food or otherwise
we make it happen
did you hear the door?
are you sure that was the door?
good shabbas, come in!
no, not a temple
we do a different thing
we be secular
all around the world
and in my city also
jews get familiar
The New Year Brings Much Joy at MHP
Hey Y'all,
Well the New Year has come and gone but that doesn't mean the fun is going to stop here at MHP. The switch from 08 to 09 was quite fun for all of us here in Sunny Philadelphia. I was able to see two wonderful klezmastic/Balkan-tastic groups at the local performance venue, The Electric Factory. It has been and continues to be fun being in the company of good friends during these celebrations.
We had a great time over the Holidays, especially at our Channukah Celebration at the local retirement home, Sterling Glen. We ran a small service for the last night, lit the candles, distributed some diabetes-insensitive foods, sang traditional songs together. I was excited to play dreidle with three lovely older ladies who cleaned me out of all my almonds (no gelt for us, folks). We even left a bunch of spinning tops for them to continue the party after we left.
Well, I guess that's my update for now. Here's looking to a bright and beautiful 2009!
Brian
Well the New Year has come and gone but that doesn't mean the fun is going to stop here at MHP. The switch from 08 to 09 was quite fun for all of us here in Sunny Philadelphia. I was able to see two wonderful klezmastic/Balkan-tastic groups at the local performance venue, The Electric Factory. It has been and continues to be fun being in the company of good friends during these celebrations.
We had a great time over the Holidays, especially at our Channukah Celebration at the local retirement home, Sterling Glen. We ran a small service for the last night, lit the candles, distributed some diabetes-insensitive foods, sang traditional songs together. I was excited to play dreidle with three lovely older ladies who cleaned me out of all my almonds (no gelt for us, folks). We even left a bunch of spinning tops for them to continue the party after we left.
Well, I guess that's my update for now. Here's looking to a bright and beautiful 2009!
Brian
Israel here and there
Our Moishe House mate went to Taglit Birthright Israel on 29th December. She was afraid to make that decicion but after taking the advice from her parents and friends she finally took off. We are still worried about her so we decided to put in the schedule of january's events a special meeting to discuss the israeli situaton today. We invited some special guessts: a Rabbi, an graduate of Arab studies, an graduate of international affairs, a journalist, a lawyer, a pacifist, and an anarchist and all of our dear friends.
The introduction to our discuss was watching the interview with Ania Ciszewska- our Moishe House Mate on the nationwide Polish station. She was saying what young Jews in Diaspora are thinking about current situation. Here is the link, just copy it to your browser:
http://dziendobrytvn.plejada.pl/24,14220,wideo,,73101,konflikt_w_gazie,aktualnosci_detal.html
The discussion, as you can guess, was passionate. We acctually cannot say that it was fruitfull but it brought lots of new ways to look at the conflict.
Just after the meeting was going to an end we got the info that IDF land forces entered into the Gaza Teritory.
The introduction to our discuss was watching the interview with Ania Ciszewska- our Moishe House Mate on the nationwide Polish station. She was saying what young Jews in Diaspora are thinking about current situation. Here is the link, just copy it to your browser:
http://dziendobrytvn.plejada.pl/24,14220,wideo,,73101,konflikt_w_gazie,aktualnosci_detal.html
The discussion, as you can guess, was passionate. We acctually cannot say that it was fruitfull but it brought lots of new ways to look at the conflict.
Just after the meeting was going to an end we got the info that IDF land forces entered into the Gaza Teritory.
I am so exited to have moishe house for the first time
That is our first post on the Moishe House Blog. We are running the Moishe House Warsaw since 15th December. It has been only two weeks. But we all feel it was very intensive. The moving in was a little bit in hurry. We had little time to move all our things to our new house in the center of Warsaw. Our flat is very beautiful and spacious. Sometimes when we clean we thing it is a little too spacious...
We are very happy and exited to run the MH. That has a great meaning to us. Officially we can say that we create the community of twenty-something people in Warsaw. That is fun but also we find it a responsible task. Below we post some photos from the moving in proces.
We already had run five events. Recently was the time of bank holidays. So that was quite easy to have events. But the time of work and studies is starting tomorrow so that will be a bit harder than. We wish ourselfs that it will be no abstacle. And we will come into New Year with lots of power to put our ideas into reality of Moishe House.
We are very happy and exited to run the MH. That has a great meaning to us. Officially we can say that we create the community of twenty-something people in Warsaw. That is fun but also we find it a responsible task. Below we post some photos from the moving in proces.
We already had run five events. Recently was the time of bank holidays. So that was quite easy to have events. But the time of work and studies is starting tomorrow so that will be a bit harder than. We wish ourselfs that it will be no abstacle. And we will come into New Year with lots of power to put our ideas into reality of Moishe House.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Ilana Schuman Stoler; MH Chicago; New Month New Year!!!
Good Evening everyone!
It has been a nice mid-week weekend! New Years was an exciting time, I got to leave town for a couple days and escape the humdrum of the city. New Years Eve, we had an event and welcomed our regulars to take a trip with us to Madison, Wisconsin to celebrate the new year. We made a beautiful dinner, packed with schnitzel, lasagna and a delicious salad which got me thinking: we've had some really great Moishe House meals lately. Some fun and holiday-inspired meals, and some just plain delicious. For our shabbat dinner, we had Elana's famous peanut soup and an amazing sandwich spread, which we mostly ate as leftovers because people loved Elana's soup so much that they were full before the sandwich course! For Hanukah we ate a hefty amount of latkes and sugar cookies and those were simply divine! We must have made three hundred latkes, if not more! In our second year, it's been very fun to see when our regulars from last year come to events, and it's been nice to see a whole new slew of regulars come out of the woodwork anew this year. For however long we decide to keep this up, I know for certain, that whatever community we've built in the past year and a half will remain solid so long as we all live in Chicago, and stopping for a moment last night to think about this made me very happy and pleased with this fact and proud to be a part of such a moving organization.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Ilana
It has been a nice mid-week weekend! New Years was an exciting time, I got to leave town for a couple days and escape the humdrum of the city. New Years Eve, we had an event and welcomed our regulars to take a trip with us to Madison, Wisconsin to celebrate the new year. We made a beautiful dinner, packed with schnitzel, lasagna and a delicious salad which got me thinking: we've had some really great Moishe House meals lately. Some fun and holiday-inspired meals, and some just plain delicious. For our shabbat dinner, we had Elana's famous peanut soup and an amazing sandwich spread, which we mostly ate as leftovers because people loved Elana's soup so much that they were full before the sandwich course! For Hanukah we ate a hefty amount of latkes and sugar cookies and those were simply divine! We must have made three hundred latkes, if not more! In our second year, it's been very fun to see when our regulars from last year come to events, and it's been nice to see a whole new slew of regulars come out of the woodwork anew this year. For however long we decide to keep this up, I know for certain, that whatever community we've built in the past year and a half will remain solid so long as we all live in Chicago, and stopping for a moment last night to think about this made me very happy and pleased with this fact and proud to be a part of such a moving organization.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Ilana
MHSeattle, Neal Schindler, 1/1/2009
In the last few weeks alone, I've been impressed by how many different kinds of people find their way to Moishe House Seattle, and how many ways there are to end up here. One person found us on Facebook and decided to stop by after giving Jconnect (an organization connected to Hillel and targeted at a similar post-college, pre-family demographic) the old college try; my impression is that she won't stop attending Jconnect events but simply wants an alternative for times when Jconnect isn't serving all her Jewish social needs. MH Seattle also seems to have enough staying power in people's minds that they come back to us, even if they've been out of town for months. What others enjoy about our community is fairly simple: unforced fellowship, genuine warmth, and the kind of rich, stable home environment that can be hard to find between college and marriage. It's not that any of this is news, just that I start 2009 with renewed appreciation for it all. As my life begins to change in certain ways -- a likely new job, a return to (the terrifying and exciting world of) dating -- I'm grateful for a home that supports and nurtures my development, personal and professional. And of course for my housemates, who are worth more than their weight in gold, or latkes. (Speaking of which: I think I've had about enough latkes.)
Our calendar for January offers the triumphant return of "Jews on Ice," albeit this time at a proper rink rather than the rinky-dink specimen we found last month at Seattle Center. (Though the sight of little kids skating with "walkers" -- don't worry, they weren't actually disabled, just unsure of themselves on the ice -- amused us all, I think it's safe to say.) We'll also be bringing back the Havdalah-and-Spicebox combo event that Snow-mageddon '08 managed to spoil in December (Spicebox is a belly-dancing event that a number of MH Seattle regulars are into). There'll also be a couple of Shabbatot, including our signature Russian Shabbat, and I'll be leading an excursion to Town Hall Seattle's "Jewish in America" series -- specifically, to an event on Jewish film and music that will include live performances and the screening of four short movies. With the new year come changes, but MH Seattle's certifiable awesomeness remains delightfully intact.
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