This space in the weekly e-mail often serves as place for us to share spiritual insight, thoughts on Torah, and timely information about local grassroots social justice efforts. While this week’s parsha or Torah Portion, Bo is both rich and exciting (it includes The ten plagues sent by God against the Egyptians, among other things), we’d like to switch gears a little bit and offer to you all a simple invitation. In just six weeks Massachussetts will hold its presidential primary when voters have the opportunity to pick the presidential candidate of their respective parties.

Another opportunity to excercise the democratic perogative is coming up much sooner. Moishe Kavod House will hold its annual Membership Meeting on February 12th. This is when members of the Moishe Kavod House can come together and struggle as a community with the direction they want this organization to go in.  The issues will of course be a bit different from the up coming election. We don’t get to decide whether our government is committed to maintaining a fair economy that works for all people, will run a balanced budget, or will work with its neighboring governments to ensure a more peaceful world. However wewill have the opportunity to weigh in on whether Moishe Kavod House will ever be a multi-generational community, how we can reach financial viability, and what it means to be a powerful civic entity. It is the chance of every member of the Moishe Kavod House to stand up and make their voice heard. You may not always be able to voice your opinions on where our conuntry should be going in a way you know it will be heard, but you can help to shape the direction of this house.

These meetings help to decide the strategic direction that our house takes, but it is only open to those who have become members of Moishe Kavod House. If you are not yet a member and you want to have a voice in the conversation on where Moishe Kavod is going, it is not too late. You can still become a member. It takes a few minutes and can be done on-line here.

And if you can’t make it, but still need some democracy in your life there’s always Super Tuesday, but we hope we get to see you before then.