Moishe House
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Moishe House is a collection of homes throughout the world that serve as hubs for young adult Jewish community (with an emphasis on ages 21-30). Moishe House provides a rent subsidy and a program budget for a handful of young, eager, innovative Jews to live in and create their vision of an ideal Jewish communal space for themselves and their peers.
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[edit] Concept
The concept of Moishe House is to develop young Jewish community leadership through creating an ideal space for young adult Jews; particularly post-college Jews in their 20’s.
Each Moishe House hosts between 50 and 400 young Jewish adults each month.
Moishe House’s 24 houses pan the globe reaching nine countries on four continents. On an average month the 89 Moishe House residents host over 2,500 participants at 150 events. Over 10,000 young Jews have participated in programs since its inception in 2006
The Jewish community has done an incredible job of building infrastructure to support one another in huge variety of ways. From preschools to older adult programs, High School youth group, college campus organizations, seniors homes, etc – the Jewish community has certainly established wonderful Jewish communities throughout the world. But what about Jewish life after college? What has the Jewish community done to support its community once someone has graduated college but is not yet ready to start a family or join a synagogue?
Moishe House is especially poised to answer this question in a unique way. Almost every segment of this grassroots movement is controlled and operated by young Jews in the age range we seek to support. Beyond the fact that all Moishe House residents are in the target age range, so are all the supporting staff.
The philosophy behind Moishe Houses is to set up grassroots community centers that cater towards the twenty-something post-college Jewish population. By offering a rent subsidy and a monthly program budget to a group of young, responsible, and social Jews living in the same house, they in turn agree to host events that range from a simple Shabbat Dinner to a Purim mega-party. Residents upload pictures of the events they put on and blog about their experiences so that other people can see what's going on. Events are designed around the local Jewish population but are always inclusive of non-Jewish guests and are sometimes non-Jewish in nature (such as attending a baseball game).
[edit] Background
Moishe House was created by Philanthropist Morris B. Squire [1] and Forest Foundation Executive Director David Cygielman. Squire and Cygielman recognized the need for Jewish programming for Jews between the ages of 21-30 and decided to experiment with a group of young Jews in Oakland, California. From that first house in Oakland, CA, Moishe House has grown into a global network for young Jews.
[edit] Current Locations
Moishe Houses are currently open in the following locations:
U.S.
* Boston [2] * Chicago[3] * Great Neck[4] * Hoboken [5] * Los Angeles[6] * New Orleans[7] * Oakland [8] * Philadelphia [9] * Portland [10] * Providence [11] * Sacramento [12] * San Francisco [13] * Seattle [14] * Silver Spring [15] * Washington, DC [16]
International
* Buenos Aires, Argentina [17] * Cape Town, South Africa [18] * London, England [19] * Minsk, Belarus [20] * Montevideo, Uruguay [21] * Tel Aviv - Yaffo, Israel [22] * Vienna, Austria [23] * Warsaw, Poland [24]
[edit] Planned Houses
Moishe Houses will open in the following locations in 2008:
* Dallas, TX * Johannesburg, South Africa
[edit] Funders
Moishe House is currently funded by the following people and organizations:
* Morris Bear Squire [25] * The Forest Foundation [26] * The Center for Leadership Initiatives [27] * Lynn Schusterman [28] * Aaron Edelheit [29] * Morton Meyerson [30] * The Rothschild Foundation [31]
