Broken Blog about Brokenness

By Beit T'shuvah
Published on February 19, 2013

Messianic Jewish groups claim rapid growth

Published on June 12, 2012

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.

Is luck dead?

By Marty Kaplan
Published on March 12, 2012

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

By Ryan E. Smith
Published on September 14, 2011

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

Published on December 10, 2008

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

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on April 24, 2003

Rabbi Gary Johnson is overjoyed. There's no other way to describe it.

2040 Vision

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 14, 2002

This, too, shall pass.

And 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?

His answer: the Negev.

"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."

Six Months Later

By Judy Gruen
Published on March 7, 2002

Sept. 11 was a watershed event in American history. Every decent person felt shock and revulsion to the very core.

Survivor: Malibu

By Michael Aushenker
Published on February 14, 2002

Forget the South Pacific, the Australian Outback and Africa -- if you want to see a real survivor, look no further than in your own backyard.

Conquest by Birthrate

By Simon Carroll
Published on December 6, 2001

A leading Arab think tank is backing an old strategy -- to defeat the Jewish State from within by encouraging the growth of its Arab population.

Israel: Land of Sustainable Growth?

By Avi Machlis
Published on November 18, 1999

Rosy government forecasts have been backed by a series of recent reports issued by leading financial analysts, who see Israel's economy pulling out of the slowdown that has pushed unemployment up to nearly 9 percent since 1997.