The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2015 - Page 5
Community News
Moishe House March Events
Moishe House is a nonprofit
organization dedieated to promot
ing eommunity among Jewish
young adults in their twenties and
early thirties, seeking to fill the
void that often exists after gradu
ating eollege and prior to “settling
down.”
The organization, with 75
houses in 17 eountries, brings to
gether Jewish adults who live to
gether and plan loeal programs,
both home-based and external, for
other young Jewish adults.
Moishe House Charlotte began in
August 2013 and has hosted over
95 events ranging from serviee
projeets to soeial events to Jewish
learning and more. Its eurrent res
idents are Diana Warth, Elana
Congress, Audrey Singer,
Danielle Soowal, and Matt
Hirsehl.
Here are our Mareh events:
1. Share the Love Purim Party
— Saturday, Mareh 7 at 7 PM at
Moishe House
Share the Love with Moishe
House and Torah on Tap with a
eo-sponsored Purim Party on
Mareh 7 starting at 7 PM at the
Moise House. Wear your best eos-
tume and eome prepared to have
fun; we’ll have musie playing all
night for daneing, and drinks and
noshes will be provided. In the
spirit of Purim, the entranee fee
will be two eanned goods to do
nate to the Jewish Family Serv-
iees’ food pantry.
2. Mr. Mareh’s Old Sehool
Video Game Night — Mareh 3 at
7:30 PM at Moishe House
Join Mr. Mareh and the Moishe
House for a flashbaek to the glory
days you spent playing Mario
Kart in your parents’ basement.
We will have old sehool gaming
systems sueh as Sega and N64
and relive the video games of our
youth through a Mario Kart tour
nament. We eneourage all partiei-
pants to bring any old sehool
video game system and/or video
game that they would like to play.
Amazingly-staeked fruit plates,
drinks, and other snaeks will be
provided. Finally, you’ll be able to
purehase a Charlotte Niee Jewish
Boys Calendar during the event
and get it autographed by Mr.
Mareh himself. Feed your FOMO
and make sure to join us for this
speeial evening.
3. Good Deeds Day with JFS
— Mareh 15 at 6:30 PM at
Moishe House
Join the Moishe House resi
dents as we partieipate in Interna
tional Good Deeds Day on Mareh
15. We are partnering with Jewish
Family Serviees and UNCC Hillel
students to provide food for the
elderly on Passover. Come to the
Moishe House on Mareh 15 at
6:30 PM to deeorate the bags that
will later eontain items for a
Passover eelebration. In early
April, we will sort the food and
put the bags together for delivery.
Arts and erafts supplies and
snaeks will be provided. We will
be eolleeting non-perishable items
over the next month to put in the
bags, so we would greatly appre-
eiate donations of jars of gefilte
fish, horseradish, matzah ball
soup mix, Passover eandies, mae-
aroons, matzah or Tam Tam
eraekers, and grape juiee.
4. Banff Film Festival - Mareh
22 at 6:30 PM at the Blumenthal
Performing Arts Center
The 2014/2015 Banff Film Fes
tival makes its stop in Charlotte at
the Blumenthal Performing Arts
Center on Mareh 22. The Banff
Mountain Film Festival is the
world’s largest mountain festival
in the world. Short films bring
you to exotie and beautiful loea-
tions internationally, with moun
tain and aetion sports as the
eommon thread. Eaeh tieket eosts
$12, and you ean buy them in ad-
vanee online at the Blumenthal
website. Meet at the theater at
6:30 PM; the film starts at 7 PM.
5. Havdalah Sing-a-long with
Chabad - Mareh 28 at 8:30 PM at
Moishe House
Come partieipate in one of the
most beautiful and short serviees
in Judaism—Havdalah, the elos-
ing of Shabbat. Bring your instru
ments. Don’t worry if you are
unfamiliar with Havdalah; we will
learn the prayers together, diseuss
their meaning, and offer some
new insights we learned on the
Shabbat Innovations Learning Re
treat. Our friends from Chabad
will make this experienee extra
speeial. Come sing, drum, and see
where the night takes us.
6. Java Jews with with Torah
on Tap and Moishe House —
Monday, Mareh 30 at 7 PM at the
Director of Veteran’s
Services Speaks to
Veterans
Are you a veteran? Do you
have questions about your bene
fits? Do you need help with navi
gating the system? Do you want
answers about benefits for your
spouse or ehildren?
You are invited to a meeting of
the Jewish War Veterans for a
questions and answers meeting
with James Prosser, the Direetor
of Veteran Serviee’s Division,
Meeklenburg County. Join us on
Sunday, Mareh 22 at Temple
Beth El, 10-11:30 AM. For more
information about JWV and the
meeting, please eontaet post eom-
mander Barry Ross at jwv-
post765@ gmail.eom or post pa-
triotie offieer Eileen Sehwartz at
704-962-1868.^
Morroeroft Harris Teeter Star-
bueks
Moishe House’s very own
Diana Warth will lead this
month’s Torah On Tap Java Jews.
Java Jews is a eafe Torah diseus-
sion that’s free and open to all
young professionals in the Jewish
eommunity. Come on out— meet
and greet over eoffee and enjoy an
hour of lively diseussion.
For more information about
Moishe House Charlotte, e-mail
us at mohoeharlotte@gmail.eom,
visit our website at
http://www.moishehouse.org/hous
es/eharlotte, or eheek us out on
faeebook at https://www.faee-
book.eom/MoisheHouseChar-
lotte. We look forward to seeing
you soon.^
Wednesday, April 22
YOM HAZIKARON
Israel Memorial Day
6:15 PM, Sam Lerner Center for cultural Arts
Sunday, April 26
YOM HA'ATZMAUT
Israel Independence Day
6:00 PM, Gorelick Hall
Special Performance by
MIKA KARNI
& Kol Dodi Ensemble
Jewish Federation
OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
Call 704.944.6757 for more information
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