Thursday, February 11, 2010

Moishe House Makes It (To The Pages of the NYTimes)

Here's the story.

Here's Moishe House site.

Q. What?

A.
The Jewish community has successfully created the infrastructure for
engaging young Jews from birth through college life. However, with an increasing
number of young Jews waiting to start families until their thirties, our community is faced with a new transient demographic of young adults in their twenties who are focused on exploring their identities, trying new jobs and taking advantage of advanced education. Thus far, the Jewish community has struggled to find vehicles that effectively engage young Jews in this demographic.

With this in mind, Moishe House was created by David Cygielman and Morris B. Squire to cultivate a meaningful and attractive pathway from Jewish college life to Jewish family life. With generous support from national foundations, Moishe House has been able to create a successful and replicable model with a lean national infrastructure. We are committed to excellence and are currently undergoing a three-year evaluation with an outside consultant to better assess our impact and continue improving our model. In each city, we are partnering with local funders to support and grow our houses along with working to secure more national funding to increase our capacity and effectiveness.

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