Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Reconceiving Community for a Better Tomorrow

  Rabbis Klayman and Nichol provide excellent retrospectives on Jewish communal stability amidst the crises of yesterday and today. They speak of past and present. In the current essay, however, my focus will be on community structures suited to a better tomorrow. Just as the quality of a building is determined by how well it serves a particular purpose, so we must ask what kind of community structures will best serve the people and purposes of tomorrow’s Messianic Judaism. Rabbi Klayman highlights our extraordinary record of communal survival, a persistent trek through the ages, repe