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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.

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.\”

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