Jewish Social Justice, what more can you ask for?
Sarah and Aaron and Ben played pool and ate bad bar food together while discussing plans for 2009.
It was our third annual exotic latke party. Delicious, and tons of fun. Plus, a bunch of new folks signed up to be members!
Continuing our anti-foreclosure work, plus City Life honored us at their 35th Anniversary Celebration!
Partnering with our friends at the WC to continue our Justice for Janitors fight!
Some core community organisers got together to vision transforming the space (including painting upstairs), and get our monthly skillshares and crafternoons back on the map. We also ate yummy Thai food.
Getting back in the hevruta groove
Our monthly new moon women's group meets.
Environmental justice tour
Screening of great documentary King Corn
We rocked out on behalf of the Moishe/Kavod community.
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Join Moishe/Kavod folks and GesherCity to plan the next series of salon conversations in Boston. These nights are for conversation about each attendee’s personal relationship to Judaism and a specific topic. Those topics have incl…
Learning, networking, rocking
Sending her off to Israel for two months!
20 of our most crucial community leaders came together to discuss membership, communications and more...
Planning for HUGE Shabbat celebrations at the house!
Figuring out how best to deploy the new website...
A post-election conversation and visioning session
Went to a peace abbey. Beautiful.
Dancing in the streets of Cambridge!
Doing our best to keep folks in their homes
MHBOS kicked off its new local foods campaign (in short, leverage our power to educate about and empower Jewish communities to purchase local foods and use this as a tool to strengthen the community) with over thirty community mem…
The photos are a bit blurry, but the dinner was delicious.
Getting Presidential...in a bar!
A community member who spent the last several months in Africa returns!
Margie and Ben sit on a panel demanding justice for workers at a local cleaning company.
The planning continues...
A great gathering of all the amazing folks who made Moishe House Burning Man happen!
Margie helped put together an amazing, powerful gathering of religious leaders to focus on issues of poverty.
Getting ready for the big rally...
One-time housemate. Always friend. Always rocking.
It's in the bible. We honor it.
For the national week of faith action on poverty
Women. Spirituality. Sweet.
A new leader...she rocks.
Joyful davenning and yummy local food were enjoyed by all at Shabbat in Dean Park.
We're taking this bad boy to the next level!
More work on our foreclosure campaign
Learning + deliciousness!
The ultimate in community supported agriculture cooking competition! We cooked and ate amazing food, and celebrated the earth's bounty in the process.
Good times for the ladies of Moishe/Kavod.
We're gonna rock with the rest of the country (& AJWS and Avodah, of course).
Joe's last Shabbat with us!
The Great Monkey Caper of 2008 a lovely lovely time.
Getting ready to register voters...
Evan, Ben, and Margie recruited 55 new people!
We went to the State House and delivered hourglasses and cookies, urging our reps to pass the same day voter registration bill.
Getting ready to take the State House by storm...
Like Jewish Summer Camp all over again...
Humongous Shabbat Dinner in the Park! Lots of new and wonderful folks!
Truly a kickass meeting. Lots of planning and scheming for cool arty stuff in the months to come...
Lauren led us in some yoga opening the throat chakra in honour of this new month of Tammuz, where we will all begin seeing more clearly
I took incoming rabbinical student Shoshana Friedman out to tea and already she's excited about starting an eco-kosher coop at MHBOS!
We met to plan a debate watch party
We had a healthy products party!
Yup, more radical judaism.
Another holy, fun, and delicious Shabbat dinner.
We got home and de'breifed from our incredible Moishe community retreat
We gathered over pizza to plan our election work for the coming months.
We hosted a bunch of folks for the holiday of Shavuot, after we recovered partially from our all-night study-athon.
We rocked out with 30+ of our key leaders in New Hampshire. It was awesome.
The women of Moishe House celebrated the new month of Sivan, the month of Shavuot and the receiving of the Torah, by receiving new fashions through our clothing swap, and blessings through our blessing circle.
More Radical Jews Studying More Radical Judaism
Another great session of the Beit Midrash.
Moishe House folks joined a diverse crowd from all around Boston to commit ourselves to environmental justice work, and celebrate ACE's recent victories.
Who is wise? The one who learns from everyone. Which is what we do at the Beit Midrash group learning.
Radical Jews studying Radical Judaism
Moishe House Boston joined 1700 other folks from religious groups around Boston to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Greater Boston interfaith organization, and to call upon the candidates to work for social justice.
Another good session of the beit midrash. These pics are actually from after, when the beit midrash folks met to talk about Shavuot.
Thanks to the generosity of the Forest Foundation, we had a great and very classy time showcasing Morris' art, and the work of several artists in our community.
Rad Jews. Radical thoughts.
Another awesome Shabbat of singing, friends, and good food.
Laura leads another session for arts...
Righteous Indignation Conference Day 3! Visioning and planning.
The holy women of Moishe House gathered to celebrate the new month.
150 folks from 12 states converged on Boston to strengthen the Jewish social justice movement and organize to voice progressive issues as religious community priorities in the '08 election.
150 folks came from around the country to think with us about how to build a Jewish social justice movement, and to voice social justice and environmental issues as religious community priorities in the '08 election.
Taking to the streets en masse...for justice!
Passover Seder! Moishe House Boston had our first Passover seder, and it was so awesome that if we never have another seder, it would have been enough. Dayeinu! (which means it would have been enough). But we hope to have more.
Margie took a break from Passover prep to join friends for some birthday risotto and bowling, and wound up getting her name posted on the board as the high scorer for the evening. This is the first time Margie has ever won anythi…
Blocking an eviction w/our allies at City Life!
The four of us kicked it with our Community Leadership Team chair Mike, our friend Leise the photographer, and Jeremy on the computer. Here we are planning intently for our leadership retreat in June.
This week, the radical Jews studied theology, ala Rabbis Art Green, Marsha Praeger, and the folks prayers of eastern european peasant women
We are decorating our prayer space with our artistic prayerful visions.
We had regional small group dinners in several neighborhoods, all organized by our volunteers!
Jews, Muslims, texts. Good times.
The Beit Midrash went to the Mikveh (ritual bath) to learn about Boston's progressive mikveh space, created by Anita Diamant, author of the Red Tent.
Jews. Union folks. Telling stories about freedom. Good stuff.
Training the table leaders for the labor seder...
Lily Rakia, MC and cool mama extraordinaire, did her HeebHop thing for the ladeez
Jewish Muslim Dialogue - our first in a series of 3.
We just keep doing this work. It's important, so good for us.
housemates plus the president, vp and treasurer of our new board met over dinner to discuss budgeting, plus our upcoming community building retreat
Purim! We pre-partied, partied, and post partied! We had no idea which was Haman and which was Mordechai, which is a mitzvah!
class on class... followed by a potluck
they had such a good time, they stayed til havdallah...
1-on-1 with new member Emma Rika - she's going to run a theatre of the oppressed workshop for us!
rosh chodesh circle led by annie gilbert
Joe made amazing food, and we got to meet Jeremy! And say a tearful farewell to Brady, in his professional capacity. He's our friend for life!
Moishe House is helping plan the labor seder, so this meeting got down and dirty with the details.
We met to write our mission statement, and get a look at the lunar eclipse!
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Oy Oy Oy! After a jam session at Shabbat, a bunch of folks got together to play klezmer tunes. It turns out our friends are extremely talented, and include violinists, pianists, clarinetists, accordian players, and yiddish singe…
A key part of our leadership development strategy is meeting with people one-on-one to develop stronger relationships and explore how we can work together. Here Margie is meeting with two key community allies, Catherine Bell of t…
Margie travels to Milwaukee on her book tour, to bring folks to Boston for our big conference
Our tenants rights group had a discussion with City Life / Vida Urbana about the sub-prime mortgage crisis and its impact on tenants
Thia week's Radical Judaism class focused on queerness; reclaiming the Jewish sissy, gender performance in the Bible, and queer naked seders
Brandeis Sociology Professor Marty Fellman and a member of Combatants for Peace addresse Moishe House members and student activists from the Union of Progressive Zionists
welcome to the month of chaos and joy
We had a wonderful study session with Aliza Klein from Mayyim Hayyim (www.mayyimhayyim.org) on the renewal of mikveh for contemporary times.
Ben cooked Mom's special mac & cheese for dinner. Everyone loved it. Plus, we figured out the future of Moishe House Boston!
The evening began in joy, celebrating Ben's birthday, but ended in sadness, with the Pats loss to the Giants
In this week's radical Judaism class we discussed a manifesto written by a radical Jewish activist group in the 1970s.
Our tubishvat Seder drew in over 65 people!
Mad Hatter Tea Party - We celebrated Sarah's birthday in fine British style
25 Jewish Activists and Students gathered for our first bi-weekly course on Building a Radical Judaism
Our partnership for tenants' rights continues!
The ladies of Kavod get down with their spiritual selves...!
The Skins lost...but the girls enjoyed their havdalah drumming. Oh, well...one for two ain't bad.