Tuula-Hannele Ikonen's book 'BACK TO FAMILY WELFARE' is important and interesting and touches the quest for identity and the return to religion in post Soviet era societies. The story is located in Ukraine which has a long history of Jewish life with destructive Shoah and violent pogrom experiences. The movement that this work is focused on is the Messianic Jewish Movement that emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet rule (1989) and its independence (1991). This book describes of it how Messianic Judaism emerged and how Jewish women produced a vision to contribute family welfare....