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Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation Annual International Tisha B'Av Event *
Special Book Offer from AJOP & Doron Kornbluth *
Fundamentals of Talmud-Learn How to Learn Gemara


OUTREACH

New Torah Based Outreach Seen Energizing Hillel
Shifting Paradigms: The Differences in Jewish Youth Today
Secular Israelis Fill Void by Taking Up Torah Study

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING
People Pick Charities Based on Life Experiences
Smaller Foundations Exceed Payout Requirements in 2009
Ensuring a Planning Process Works

NORTH AMERICA

ADL: Farrakhan Scapegoats Jews
"Rabbi Live" Turns His Sights on Obama After Helen Thomas
NY Times: Tax Exempt Status Only for Groups that Agree with the Administration

ISRAEL
Rabbinate to Strip Authority From Rabbis Who Sing Under the Chuppah
Peoplehood vs. Israel: The Split at the Heart of Jewish Identity
Canadian-Russian Birthright Trip Planned
NY Times: US-Israel Relationship Goes From Crisis to Crisis

INTERNATIONAL
Pope Under Fire for Yom Kippur Eve Speech
List of French Who Collaborated with Nazis Published
Yosef Begin, the Old Prisoner of Zion Still Defiant
Jewish Tombstones Used to Lay Pavement

ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Tips for Avoiding Overscheduled Family Syndrome
Newly Ordained Find the 2010 Spiritual Job Market a Tough Place to Sell Their Wares
Rabbi of Historic Orthodox Synagogue Overturns Decision to Let Women Lead
Pickle Shop, Lower East Side Icon Now Makes Its Home in Boro Park
Of Faith & Fiction: Frum Novelists Go Mainstream

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Lawrence, NY

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Denver, CO

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Jerusalem, Israel

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Baltimore, MD

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Baltimore, MD

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Cincinnatti, OH

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An Article from The Jewish Week

Dan Smokler, a 31-year-old Yale graduate, ordained rabbi and former labor organizer, wears the mantle of the Jewish campus community's equivalent of The Great White Hope with an easy grace. Continue Reading

outreacharticle2Shifting Paradigms: The Differences in Jewish Youth Today
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Just about everybody agrees that the attitudes and behaviors of younger Jews today are very different from those of the preceding two or three generations. Jews who lived through the Holocaust and saw the birth of the State of Israel viewed those events as defining aspects of Jewish identity.   Continue Reading

Outreacharticle3Secular Israelis Fill Void by Taking Up Torah Study
An Article from Ynet News

The average secular Jew in Israel is a sad paradox: He is Jewish, but does not know how to read Judaism.    Continue Reading
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givingfundraisingarticle1People Pick Charities Based on Life Experiences
An Article from Irish Health

Despite people's widespread beliefs that charities exist primarily to help the needy, the majority of donors tend to support organisations that promote their own preferences.

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Fundraisingarticle2Smaller Foundations Exceed Payout Requirements in 2009
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Foundation Source, a provider of support services for donor led and family foundations, has announced findings that a large majority of its small and mid-size private foundation clients made charitable gifts in excess of their IRS minimum distribution requirement. Continue Reading

Fundraising3Ensuring a Planning Process Works
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

During the last several weeks I have been engaged by clients who want to initiate planning processes and in each case the question was asked, "How do we insure that the process works for our organization?"     Continue Reading
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farrakhan Northamericaarticle1ADL: Farrakhan Scapegoats Jews
An Article from ADL

With a letter to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) enclosing two virulently anti-Semitic "histories," including a newly written volume claiming Jews for centuries have worked to financially undermine Black people...  Continue Reading

northamericaarticle2"Rabbi Live" Turns His Sights on Obama After Helen Thomas
An Article from Right Side Press

Rabbi David Nesenoff has given Accuracy in Media the most detailed account yet of how his encounter with veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas caused him to reevaluate not only his view of the media, but of the White House and President Obama.  Continue Reading

Namericaarticle3NY Times: Tax Exempt Status Only for Groups that Agree with the Administration
An Article from Commentary Magazine

In an astonishing (and absurdly long) front-page story today, three New York Times reporters breathlessly offer an account of the fact that West Bank settlements and settlers are supported by nonprofit American organizations.    Continue Reading
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chuppahisrael1Rabbinate to Strip Authority from Rabbis Who Sing Under the Chuppah
An Article from Ynet News

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel decided to strip rabbis who incorporate song and musical performances into the marriage ceremony of their authority to officiate at weddings claiming that it "cheapens the Rabbinate." Continue Reading

israel2Peoplehood vs. Israel: The Split at the Heart of Jewish Identity
An Article from The Forward

Peoplehood and support of Israel are two major values of the American Jewish community. But they are in direct conflict, both in principle and in practice.  Continue ReadingAn Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Maria Grinev will be having a very Russian summer. In Israel.
Grinev is one of 20 Canadians who will be going on the first Canadian Taglit-Birthright Israel trip designed specifically for Russian Jews, called the CIE Canadian Russian Adventure.  Continue Reading

israel4NY Times: US-Israel Relationship Goes from Crisis to Crisis
An Article from The New York Times

It was only one paragraph buried deep in the most plain-vanilla kind of diplomatic document, 40 pages of dry language committing 189 nations to a world free of nuclear weapons. Continue Reading
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popeinternationalarticle1Pope Under Fire for Yom Kippur Eve Speech
An Article from JTA

Pope Benedict XVI has come under fire from Jewish groups in Britain following a report that his address to Parliament will occur on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Continue Reading
internationalarticle2List of French Who Collaborated with Nazis to be Published
An Article from Ynet News

Thousands of French citizens who collaborated with the Nazis during the World War Two will be exposed when police reports from the 1940s are finally made public and published online, the Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.    Continue Reading

International3Yosef Begin, the Old Prisoner from Zion Still Defiant
An Article from The Jewish Week

Dutch police may employ undercover agents disguised as religious Jews to expose and arrest violent anti-Semites, a police spokesperson said last week.  Continue Reading 

Internationarticle4Jewish Tombstones Used to Lay Pavement
An Article from Ynet News

Brothers who travelled to Bogoslav, Ukraine, in search of their grandfather's final resting place, were shocked to find that the stones on the pavement were actually ancient tombstones taken from the Jewish cemetery.   Continue Reading
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familyInterestarticle1Tips for Avoiding Overscheduled Family Syndrome
An Article from The Jewish Week

When parents sign up for ice skating lessons on Thursdays and yoga on Mondays they have the best interest of their child in mind.  Continue Reading

interest2Newly Ordained Find the 2010 Spiritual Job Market a Tough Place to Sell Their Wares
An Article from The Forward

Last fall, Rabbi Lennard Thal gave an uncharacteristic warning to senior rabbinical students at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the seminary that trains Reform rabbis: Consider options other than the pulpit for your rabbinic career. Continue Reading

interestarticle3 Rabbi of Historic Orthodox Synagogue Overturns Decision to Let Women Lead
An Article from The Forward

The historic Bialystoker Synagogue, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, looked set to launch a new era this past June: For the first time, the Orthodox congregation was prepared to allow a woman to run for a position its board.    Continue Reading

Interest5Pickle Shop, Lower East Side Icon Now Makes Its Home in Boro Park
An Article from The Forward

Two hours before closing time on a Friday afternoon, three members of a Hasidic family walked into Pat Fairhurst's pickle shop in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Boro Park, tempted by the sweet and sour pickles nesting in brine in big plastic barrels.   Continue Reading

Interest6Of Faith & Fiction: Frum Novelists Go Mainstream
An Article from OU.org

Can Orthodox novelists make it in the mainstream literary market? Apparently they can.   Continue Reading
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