Photos: Over a year of war, Ukrainian Moishe House residents continue to build Jewish community
A diverse group of Jewish young adults in Ukraine are celebrating their Jewish heritage despite Russian bombs falling
A diverse group of Jewish young adults in Ukraine are celebrating their Jewish heritage despite Russian bombs falling
From a scholarship that funded my first trip to Israel as a teen to an incredibly generous grant from the Santa Barbara Jewish Community Foundation that allowed me to complete my studies at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), Jewish philanthropy has had a profoundly positive impact on my life. I can definitively say that without the…
Eight Jewish organizations, including some of the largest in the country, have formed an “emergency pandemic coalition” to coordinate relief work and information-sharing regarding people in the Jewish community affected by the coronavirus outbreak and ensuing economic crash. The coalition, which will collaborate on fundraising, aiding laid-off Jewish communal professionals and coordinating the provision of…
Two not-for-profits, Moishe House and Footsteps, are teaming up to create a center for formerly ultra-Orthodox millennial Jews. Moishe House is known widely for subsidizing co-living spaces for residents who use the spaces as hubs for the local twentysomething Jewish community. The residents of the new Moishe House Crown Heights are all Jews who are…
Paris will see the opening of its first Moishe House amid a soaring number of anti-Semitic attacks in France. The launching party for the Moishe House in central Paris’ 11th Arrondissement, or district, is scheduled to take place next week, but the three residents moved into the apartment in recent weeks, Aurelie Attia, one of…
Tonight, Jan 19th, there’ll be a full moon in the sky: the full moon of the Hebrew month Shvat. The indigenous Israelites from whom we descend celebrated this as the start of the year for the natural world. Like lots of elements of Jewish tradition, we never forgot it, even as its meaning has changed…
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