Townhall.com:: The Michael Medved Show: A Heart-Breaking Betrayal

re: "...disaffected young people are never drawn to watered down versions of religious faith, that lack continuity or integrity. In every faith community, the rapidly growing denominations are those that make demands on potential adherents and advance clear standards of right and wrong. That’s why Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity has grown while “mainline” Protestant denominations have dwindled, while traditionalist Catholicism boasts far more vitality around the world than more liberal trains of the Church. Meanwhile, the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) place multiple restrictions on their members (who learn, for instance, to live without alcohol, coffee or tobacco) and yet remains one of the most rapidly growing faith communities in world. /In Judaism, the same dynamic definitely applies: with tepid and uncertain versions of the faith fighting a losing battle to maintain the affiliation of their own young people, while the unaffiliated flock to enthusiastic, traditionalist sects. No movement in Judaism has experienced anything like the explosive growth of the Hassidic organization known as Chabad with its 3,300 synagogues and community centers appearing miraculously in the most unlikely locales and transforming the face of American Judaism..."...