Moishe House Residents and MHWOW Hosts across the country tell us that their communities are increasingly divided: politically, economically, socially, and so on. As such, the subject of Israel tends to be a particularly difficult topic to handle. Moishe House is meant to be a space where community building can–and should–happen along these fractured lines.

So we must ask ourselves: how can we embrace complexity and rigor without shying away from the unknown or the controversial? How do we lead our peers to address subjects that we ourselves don’t completely understand? How can we articulate the issues that divide us and interact with them and each other in a way that builds community? How can we celebrate Israel without feeling we’re not woke enough? How do we dig into Israel’s pressing concerns and complexities–even those that do not involve the conflict with the Palestinians?