Moishe House Boston, rock'n from day one!
Going out for tenant justice to end the year!
They are delicious. Why stop just cuz Chanukah ended?
Thanks to Moishe's generous holiday pampering money, Margie hired our housemate Sarah (who is professional masseuse) to give her a massage. This picture represents Margie's happy state after the massage, and after she put all her…
Evan, our minister of fun, became older today.
Our fabulous dreams and dreaming workshop with Jewish Dream Book author Elizabeth Ochs
Good food, and good conversation with our Director of Worldwide Programs, Brady (he's on the phone).
No pics on shabbat, but you can see us cooking here. (And Joe getting a pre-shabbat head massage)
For our second annual exotic latke party, we got together and ate latkes made out of unusual veggies including beets, zuchini, and sweet potatoes. Yum!
We got together to celebrate Chanukah and two of our favorite gals's birthdays
We joined with Gesher City to learn about sex-trafficking in Israel and what we can do to prevent it.
Moishe House Boston has organized a community board to help us develop and realize our mission. This was our second board meeting, and it was a big success.
Sarah organized an awesome clothing swap, and we all came away with fabulous new-to-us clothing.
We had an amazing Shabbat welcoming in the Muslim community, and over 75 people came! Then 3 people stayed over for all of Shabbat, so these are pics from right after havdalah.
Before and after our meeting with the big macher!
Planning on talking w/the big macher about supporting our Jewish-Muslim work publicly...scary!
15 odd Moisheniks attended federation's young leadership training day, the community leadership initiative, and Margie and Ben each led a workshop! Go team!
Another HUGE shabbat - with about 70 folks, lots of singing and good coversation, and special guests Brady and Dave! Pics are of the pre-shabbat fun.
Shabbat Team Meeting - our dynamo Shabbat team got together to talk about our upcoming Jewish Muslim Shabbat, and to talk about how to keep growing sustainably.
C'mon, admit. We are very cool.
Housing justice, keeping on, growing strong...
Another great session of the Beit Midrash learning program!
Dinner in the Sukkah -- delicious!
Learning about Food Justice and Pick'n Apples.
We built a rocking Sukkah -- Ben and Joe got schach, Sarah and Margie ran a decorating jam, and the whole community made our Sukkah a living and beautiful place.
Another great session at the Beit Midrash, our weekly learning program.
Our very first community board meeting showed just how strong our leadership really is. This is exciting stuff...
Another great session at the Beit Midrash!
Torah, local scholars, and fundraising for Hazon. Doesn't it make you feel all warm inside?
Avi Fox-Rosen (www.frosenox.com) came up from NYC for a Moishe House Benefit Concert to raise money for the Muslim American Society's Build a Backpack Campaign. (Check out the movie clip!)
Color War - Awesome. Think dodge ball. Think brain teasers. Think three legged races, people running while balancing grapefruits, water balloon toss. We had it all. And we had to burst balloons with the economist magazine. H…
Thai Food. Activists. Nuf said.
Jews and Muslims got together to assemble backpacks full of school supplies for unerprivaleged kid.
Our team working to improve Jewish Muslim relations in Boston had another successful meeting!
The Boston Synogogue hosted our Beit Midrash this week, and sponsored a yummy BBQ.
Homemade Burritos and Planning for Food Justice
Joined Geshercity at their happy hourinfoschmooze
We brought a big crew to the Havurah Institute, which is kind of like Jewish Camp for grown ups. And kids too.
We've got a weekly column in the Jewish Advocate now...check out some of our first pieces.
Moishe House member's monthly house outing, this time to JP Licks! Yum!
Send off for Moishe House Activist Leah Kreiger, Bon Voyage to the Holy Land
Nice Weather and the Shabbat Queen, what else do you need?
We helped bring lots fo young jews to the Green Corps fundraiser, to raise money for environmental campaigns and enviornmental leadership training.
With the nice weather we held our weekly beit midrash outside.
It wasn't kosher. Don't tell Uncle Moishe!
Jews playing frisbee. Unprecedented!
Moishe House regular Riana Good led an exciting dance/movement workshop
Thanks to our Ministers of Fun, Evan and Katie, we enjoyed our first ever KICKBALL game. Thanks to everyone for awesome team spirit and mutual cheering.
We joined the Islamic Society of Boston at an interfaith solidarity day as they celebrated the opening of their new Roxbury mosque. Two of our activists presented the ISB with a certificate demonstrating our ongoing cooperation an…
The Beit Midrash summer session starts with a bang!
We joined with Gesher City and other groups to help 150 people join the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry. Thanks to the amazing folks who coordinated this event, we had a band and a free ice cream sundae bar.
Break out your banjo. Rev the electric GUItar. The jam session rocked.
Just a few pics of us preparing to recieve the shabbat queen!
At our lobby day with other Jewish groups supporting the right to same sex marriage, Leah and Orly wound up on the front page of the NY Times website with this picture! And the bill we that would put a marriage ban on the '08 bal…
We contributed -- just a little bit -- to protecting marriage equality in Massachusetts. Good for us!
To bid Ari farewell, we got together in our pajamas and jammed the night away, with help from Katie and Evan Metter - our co-captains of fun.
12 Folks showed up to help us plan our weekly learning program!
Shabbat. It happens on Fridays. We took these pictures before it started.
We're going to do some tenant organizing with City Life/Vida Urbana. Social justice, homes.
We said goodbye to Ari and Alyson with delicious ice cream. Ah, ice cream...
Rabbinical Students get down at a final banquet!
Another great Shabbat in Boston!
Awesome learning, once again!
Poetry as a Spiritual Practice- Bringing the Inner Child, Out
Another great session of the beit midrash!
Thanks to our amazing volunteer leaders, the Beit Midrash is going strong, so strong that we are planning our own Shavuot program. These pics are of a recent planning meeting for the Beit Midrash and our all night groovy Shavuot …
Peaceful? You know it, baby. Deep? Can't go deeper. That's just how we roll here at MoHouse Boston.
We learned, we ate ice cream, we were happy.
GesherCity's anti-trafficking cluster organised this meeting to raise awareness about trafficking of women in Israel, and to initiate community organising in protest
Margie's 8th Birthday Party 20th Anniversary. That's right - the house through Margie a party, full on dance party with a little horah thrown in, bumping Margie up and down in a chair, party games, a lot of cake.
We cleaned up the river for Earth Day. What good souls.
The Charles River Beit Midrash kicks off in style...
Our social justice team is getting serious -- joining an ongoing set of campaigns for affordable housing and environmental justice!
We had a cozy Shabbat dinner of 16 of our leaders. Here are some pics of our Shabbat prep, and the food!
As Passover ended, we gathered and ate made havdalah, ate pizza, and baked cookies.
Our Beit Midrash learning program continues to be a big success. This week, Shira Fischer taught us Jewish sources on the reasons we are asked to do social justice work. Some included that God commands us, that it will lead to r…
Works of Creation: the first in a three-part Jewish workshop based on the Artist's Way (a spiritual path to higher creativity)
Our learning team got together to make our weekly Beit Midrash even more awesome. Go team!
So much shabbos! Thanks to Rabbi Shir Yaakov for amazing services. This Shabbat we had a record number of events, with Friday night dinner and services, Shabbat lunch, the interfaith climate change rally, and then Havdalah. The…
Shabbat in Boston - on Fire!
We joined together to watch Encounterpoint, a moving documentary about Israelis and Palestinians who are working for peace through non-violent means.
More than 120 folks joined us in the basement of Brookline's Kehillath Israel to celebrate the liberation story of Passover by honoring current workers' struggles for justice right here in Greater Boston!
Jeremy, Gila and Margie joined together to plan our Ravaya, which will hopefully be a Havdalah-turned-Rave trance dance party in late April. Of course, good leaders must be well fed, so we cooked up some mac n' cheese, spinach wi…
GBI-what? We brought a solid contingent of young Jews down to the statehouse to rock out with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization in demanding universal, affordable healthcare for all!
We came! We baked! We distributed to the senior Hebrew Center! It was marvelous.
There is a commandment on Purm to get so drunk that you don't know the difference between Mordechai and Haman. So we attempted this first at a preparty at our house, then in a joint celebration with a nearby synagogue - Temple Be…
Jewish. Labor. Committee. It's about justice. We were there.
The Beit Midrash - thanks to our connections, we got Rabbi Dr. Bernie Steinberg, Exec. Director of Harvard Hillel and general genius and mensch, to come teach us. It was awesome.
Bagel brunch + phone calls to protect marriage equality in Massachusetts - that's how you spend a spring morning with the Moishe/Kavod house!
We don't like to poison fetuses. Good for us.
We're planning the labor seder. During the Oscars. Yay.
Our new Charles River Beit Midrash. We came. We learned. We did tikkun olam.
House regular and super all-star Minna Bromberg treated us all to an amazing concert...at which we raised over $650 for American Jewish World Service's relief efforts in the Darfur region of Sudan,
Ari brings the Shabbat team together to plan for holy holy holy Shabbatot at MoHouse Boston!
Partnering with the Boston Workmen's Circle, Keshet, GesherCity, Organized Voice, and a couple other organizations representing young Jews around town, we brought together over 100 awesome folks to watch the film, meet the directo…
As 1199SEIU kicks off its efforts to guarantee quality care for all throughout Greater Boston, our house showed up as a faith-based partner for social justice. It was a rocking good time, with lots of great music, cool kids, and r…
The Seminarians for Worker Justice are all up in this piece!
Margie is in rabbinical school. She teaches. Others learn. It is awesome.
The kids come back for more...midrash.
Justice - you can't stop it.
Fifty folks for havdalah. That's a lot.
Planning for excitement...learning excitement.
Alyson starts pulling together the future of art in Boston. Wow.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail. That's real.
New moon celebrations at the Peace Abbey in Sherborne, MA
20 of our most crucial community leaders gathered to discuss membership, communications and more