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November 30, 2021

When Jewish Groups Evict Politically Conservative Members

Thrown out of a Moishe House for committing wrongthink.

Founded in 2006, Moishe House is an organization that has established residences where young Jews can live together and host various Jewish activities (such as Shabbat dinner) for their peers living nearby. Less than a week after moving into one of these houses, Gabriel Katz learned that they have an important, if unwritten, rule: political conservatives are not welcome. The trouble began when he mentioned to a housemate’s boyfriend that he was working for a defense contractor:

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