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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with you about being busy and activities.  My solution was JDS.

Look at Chabad.  I know you said reform or Conservative but their mission is to support the community.  They usually offer a low cost Hebrew school.  Your Chabad May or may not require membership.  Most do not but that is starting to change.  Even so, membership is usually very reasonable.[/quote]

I just LOVE how Chabad undercuts Reform and Conservative synagogues financially,  and then claims to be all about "authentic Judaism" Feh![/quote]

What is wrong with Chabad offering low cost Jewish education? They strongly value the orthodox theology and believe everyone Jewish should have the opportunity to learn more about it.  What makes them less authentic than conservative or reform? [/quote]

They claim to be MORE authentic, which I disagree with. And they can undercut the reform and conservative shuls in part because they get contributions from rich assimilated jews who think they are more authentic (ah, beards! Black hats! ShtetL!) and give to feel better about their own assimilated lives.

The worse impact is probably on modern orthodox shuls though - in some communities the chabad basically precludes a Modern O shul from starting up.

Choice is nice and all that, but there are economies of scale in running a synagogue (worse when an older synagogue has a legacy building to maintain)[/quote]

I am modern Orthodox and live in a community that has a Chabad and several MO synagogue within a few blocks of each other and they serve different purposes and different populations. You sound incredibly biased against Chabad and while they are not perfect, they do so much good for Jews everywhere while maintaining a high level of observant Judaism. They are more welcoming and open towards non-observant Jews than you seem to be to them. It is not their beards or black hats that make them authentic, it is their commitment to Torah and Mitzvot.[/quote]

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