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Answered prayers

At 50, the once-flagging Mevakshei Derech congregation is thriving

Mevakshei Derech 521
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‘We are no longer the generation of the desert. We have now entered the Land.”

That is how Iris Beth Weiner, the executive director and cantor of Mevakshei Derech, a liberal egalitarian Jerusalem congregation, describes the congregation as it celebrates its jubilee year with the opening of a new wing – the Sidney and Freda Davidson Educational and Cultural Center with two preschool classrooms and a kindergarten.

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