AJOP Board | RABBINIC AUTHORITIES HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky HaRav Yaakov Perlow
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Rabbi Ilan Feldman Atlanta, GA Rabbi Yaacov Haber Jerusalem, Israel Mr. Richard Horowitz Los Angeles, CA Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh Northbrook, IL Dr. David Lieberman Lakewood, NJ
Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun National Director
Rabbi Shlomo Porter Baltimore, MD Mr. Jeff Schachter Esq. Passaic, NJ Mr. Frank Storch Baltimore, MD HaRav Michel Twerski Milwaukee, WI
Mr. Jerry Wolasky
Baltimore, MD
ADVISORY BOARD Mr. Mark Bane Lawrence, NY Mr. Jonathan Beren Denver, CO Dr. Robert Edelman Baltimore, MD Rabbi Avraham Edelstein Jerusalem, Israel Dr. Michael J Elman Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman Mr. Joseph Friedman Olney, MD
Mr. Harvey Hecker Toronto, ONT Mr. Steven Rosedale Cincinnatti, OH Rabbi Simcha Scholar Brooklyn, NYRabbi Nochum Stilerman Brooklyn, NY Mr Gary Torgow Detroit, MI Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD Monsey, NY
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| AJOP Convention 2009
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Divrei Hisorerus for the Yomim Noraim
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|  Powerful Tool for Hisorerus
This 6-minute film puts images and sounds to the words of Unesaneh Tokef .
A very powerful tool for hisorerus on these holy days. |
Download YU Rosh HaShana To-Go 5769
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Doron Kornbluth Speaking Tour: One Date Left
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| One Date Still Available in 2008
Doron Kornbluth ONE DATE LEFT in 2008. Evening of Thursday Nov 6th is available in the NorthEast. November tour includes Kollels, campus kiruv orgs, Maimonides programs and community shuls.
Topics include: Raising Kids to Love Being Jewish, The Kabbalah of Failure, and much more.
Three dates left in February, either in South Florida or Texas. March trip beginning to book now. |
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|  OUTREACH
The world of kiruv is constantly changing with new issues that need attention, new advances in technology that help us do our work more efficiently, inspirational people and much more. The following articles are aimed at keepin you as updated and informed as possible in this area.
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Special Rosh HaShanah Machzor for Brazil's Jews of the Amazon
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|  An Article from Arutz Sheva
Sephardic Jews living in northern Brazil's Amazon region have reason to celebrate with the publication of the first Rosh Hashanah Machzor (New Year prayer-book) which incorporates their unique liturgy and customs.
The Machzor will benefit other Portuguese-speaking Sephardic Jewish communities as well as Bnai Anousim (people whose ancestors were compelled to convert to Catholicism at the time of the Inquisition, whom historians refer to as "Marranos") throughout Brazil and Portugal.
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Jewish Stereotypes: Are They Relevant Today?
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|  An Article from The Jewish Times
You've got to be carefully taught," sings Lieutenant Joe Cable in the 1949 musical hit "South Pacific." These Oscar Hammerstein lyrics so beautifully and melodiously illuminate that prejudice is a learned response, not an innate human characteristic, and that children learn of bias by hearing it from their parents.
Are stereotypes, like prejudice and bias, learned because they are taught from generation to generation? With the face of Judaism changing due to intermarriage, conversion, immigration and other factors that impact the makeup of the Jewish people, do stereotypes still apply and have relevance today?
Stereotypically Jewish attributes - dark complexion, large nose, black or brown hair, brown eyes - are no longer the "norm" for the face of Judaism.
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PHILANTHROPY/
FUNDRAISING
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FundRaising Success: Five Tactics to Rev Up Fundraising in a Down Economy
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|  An Article from Fundraising Success Magazine
Many nonprofit professionals today are nervous. The economy, while showing hopeful signs such as slightly lower oil prices and a stronger dollar, is still not in a good place. That means donors have less money in their portfolios and their pockets.
As a result, giving is down across the board. This is not how we want to enter the all-important year-end giving season. With up to half of all donations coming in the last quarter of the calendar year, nonprofits need to start planning now so they can end the year strong.
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Jewish Charities Fear Wall Street Chaos
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|  An Article from The Jerusalem Post
US Jewish social service agencies and nonprofits say they expect this week's string of bankruptcies, buyouts and takeovers on Wall Street to severely cramp their end-of-year fund-raising as individuals curtail their donations and whole companies suspend their philanthropic programs.
Officials at the UJA-Federation of New York, which supports 102 social service agencies in the New York area, told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday they were particularly anxious about the fate of Neuberger Berman, a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers whose executives have historically contributed a significant proportion of the approximately $42 million raised annually from Wall Street.
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NORTH AMERICA
Here are some articles to keep you informed about relevant topics in North America |
Jewish Republicans Criticized for Pushing a More Aggressive Anti-Obama Effort
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|  An Article from The Forward
By running advertisements that seek to tie Senator Barack Obama to Iran, Palestinians and Patrick Buchanan, and by sponsoring a poll that some say is misleading and even manipulative, the Republican Jewish Coalition is mounting an unusually aggressive campaign that has drawn criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans.
Obama supporters led a September 16 protest outside a Manhattan calling center, where pollsters asked 750 Jewish households in the battlegrounds of Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey whether several negative statements about Obama changed their attitude toward the Democratic presidential candidate.
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Mountain Jews
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|  An Article from The Jerusalem Post
Alix Railton moved from New York City to this tranquil aspen-coated hamlet 18 years ago for the same reason that millions of tourists visit each year: She loved to ski. Just about the last thing on the 32-year-old jeweler's mind was being part of a Jewish community and, accordingly, she soon married a Roman Catholic real-estate appraiser and stayed far away from the synagogue in Salt Lake City - not difficult at a distance of 50-odd kilometers.
It was still far from her mind 12 years later, in 2002, when she attended an "evening for the disenfranchised," a get-together to introduce locals who hadn't been part of the town's slowly growing Reform congregation to its first rabbi, Josh Aaronson, and see if they could find a comfortable place in a religious setting. Railton, who describes her attitude toward Judaism at that point as "turned off," had gone only because the host was a friend and she wanted to be supportive.
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INTERNATIONAL
The following articles are to keep you updated on the ever changing world around us.
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Jews, Muslims, And Christians Emergency
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|  An Article from Vos Iz Neias
Steven Chasin is the first to admit he isn't the world's most observant Jew.
Tattoos, a Jewish taboo, cover his burly body, while his shaved head goes bare. He doesn't go to synagogue every Shabbat or keep all the laws of kashrut.
He doesn't even hold what he calls a "Jewish type of job," like being a doctor or a lawyer.
"I'm not the perfect Jew," is how Chasin, a 40-year-old Fire Department paramedic from Virginia, puts it. But he has always strongly identified as one, and used outward symbols to reinforce the point, including the Star of David pendant that hangs around his neck and the full, brown beard that has graced his face for the past two decades.
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Scholar Claims to Find Medieval Jewish Capital
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|  An Article from The Jerusalem Post
A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture.
Dmitry Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State University, said his nine-year excavation near the Caspian Sea has finally unearthed the foundations of a triangular fortress of flamed brick, along with modest yurt-shaped dwellings, and he believes these are part of what was once Itil, the Khazar capital.
By law Khazars could use flamed bricks only in the capital, Vasilyev said. The general location of the city on the Silk Road was confirmed in medieval chronicles by Arab, Jewish and European authors.
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Londoners to March for Schalit's Release
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|  An Article from The Jerusalem Post
Intense efforts to raise awareness of the plight of Gilad Schalit in the UK comes to fruition on Sunday with a march through central London and a campaign to send Rosh Hashana cards to the abducted soldier.
On the UN's international day of peace, thousands are expected to honor Schalit with a short march sending the message that his captivity in Gaza violates human rights. The event will end at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, near Piccadilly Circus, where Noam Schalit, Gilad's father, Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the UK, and others will address participants. There was also be a performance from Israeli singer Ehud Banai.
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Herzog, Austrian Chancellor Open Historic Viennese Jewish School
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|  An Article from The Jerusalem Post
Austria's top leadership, Israeli cabinet minister Isaac Herzog and local community leaders inaugurated the largest Jewi, , sh school in Europe this week.
The €90 million, 19,400-square-meter complex, the construction of which began in December 2006, houses the Zwi Perez Chajes School, a nursing home, preschool and synagogue.
It is built on the playing fields of the storied Vienna Hakoah sports club, which at its height in the 1920s produced Olympic-level Jewish athletes.
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ARTICLES OF INTEREST
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Vigilante Oyz in the Hood: Hasids Take Down Troublemaker
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|  An Article from NY Post
Don't mess with Exodus.
A group of Hasidic Jews meted out swift street justice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a man they say threatened to shoot a neighborhood storekeeper.
At about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, the man threw two watermelons to the ground at the Division Mini Mart on Clymer Street when he began cursing at the storekeeper, cops said.
"I hate Jews!" the store manager - who gave only his first name, Moses - quoted the man as yelling. "You should all die!"
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Pope Says Wartime Pontiff Pius XII Worked to Save Jews
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|  An Article from The Jerusalem Post
Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday that his predecessor Pius XII spared no effort to save Jews from the Nazis, one of the strongest Vatican defenses of a pontiff accused of silence during the Holocaust.
Benedict said during a meeting with a US-based interfaith group that he wanted any prejudice against Pius to be overcome, praising what he called Pius's "courageous and paternal dedication" in trying to save Jews.
"Wherever possible he spared no effort in intervening in their favor either directly or through instructions given to other individuals or to institutions of the Catholic Church," Benedict said.
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