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Messianic Jewish groups claim rapid growth
About 200 congregants filled the stain glassed-windowed sanctuary on a Shabbat morning this spring, praying, singing and welcoming new members. Among the newly welcomed members was a young Israeli man, named Yoav. Not really extraordinary news, except Congregation Beth Hallel in a northern suburb of Atlanta is not a typical synagogue. Indeed, it is a member of the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS), the largest ordaining body in the messianic Jewish movement.
Marty Kaplan: Is luck dead?
The trouble with kids these days is that they think luck counts more than they should. That’s the diagnosis of America’s young people offered by a New York Times opinion piece this past weekend. Generation Y has moved back home and given up on gung-ho because in these recessionary times, they’re putting too little weight on the importance of effort and too much weight on the riskiness of risk.
Turning 100: Los Angeles Jewish Home has ambitious growth plans
There are nearly 500 people waiting for a bed at L.A.’s largest senior living facility, the Los Angeles Jewish Home. Waiting, in many cases, for someone to die.
Writer discovers California ‘Gold’ in banking ancestor Isaias Hellman
Isaias Hellman was arguably the single most powerful and influential Jew in the United States from the last quarter of the 19th century until his death in 1920
Conejo Valley Hit by Growing Pains
Rabbi Gary Johnson is overjoyed. There\’s no other way to describe it.
2040 Vision
This, too, shall pass.\n\nAnd when the current government crisis in Israel, the showdown with Iraq and the conflict with the Palestinians are history, professor Avishay Braverman wonders, whither Israel?\n\nHis answer: the Negev.\n\n\”All our focus is on what I call the theater of the immediate,\” Braverman said. \”I\’m concerned we ignore internal issues in Israel, as if all we have to do is solve our external problems and the Messiah will come.\”