AJOP Update:Unprecedented Opportunity to Distribute Free Copies of the New Artscroll English Tanach

January 6, 2011 - 1 Shevat 5771

23rd Annual International AJOP Convention

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Unprecedented Opportunity to Distribute Artscroll's New English Tanach!

Letter From Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun to the Kiruv Community

OUTREACH
YU Launches Hebrew Mentoring Workshop

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING
New You Tube Site Helps Charities Attract Attention and Revenue

NORTH AMERICA

What Kissinger Missed About Jewish Emigration

ISRAEL
Haredi Schools Resist Israel's Efforts to Impose Core Curriculum

Why Israelis Emigrate

Western Wall Gets iPhone App

INTERNATIONAL
In China, Talmud Sold as Business Guide

Polish Gold Diggers at Treblinka Nazi Death Camp?

Japanese Reverend Devotes Life to Shoah Education

Chilean Jews Outraged Over Senator's Anti-Semitic Remarks

UK Terror Gangs: Rabbis Also Targets

Jews in Former Soviet Union Struggle to Survive

ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Scholars: Jews Read Greek Bible Well into Middle Ages

The Failure of Holocaust Education

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Rabbi Yaacov Haber

Jerusalem, Israel

Mr. Richard Horowitz

Los Angeles, CA

Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh

Northbrook, IL

Dr. David Lieberman

Lakewood, NJ

Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun

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Baltimore, MD

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Passaic, NJ

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Baltimore, MD

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Milwaukee, WI

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Lawrence, NY

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Denver, CO

Dr. Robert Edelman

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Rabbi Avraham Edelstein

Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Michael J Elman

Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY

Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman

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Mr. Joseph Friedman

Olney, MD
Mr. Harvey Hecker

Toronto, ONT

Mr. Stephen Rosedale

Cincinnatti, OH

Rabbi Simcha Scholar

Brooklyn, NY

Rabbi Dovid Refson

Jerusalem, Israel

Mr Gary Torgow

Detroit, MI

Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD

Teaneck, NJ

AJOP Announces an Unprecedented Opportunity to Distribute Free Copies of the New Artscroll English Tanach

Is your organization already qualified to distribute free copies of the new ArtScroll English Tanach? The Mesorah Heritage Foundation is producing a special edition of the Jewish Bible for English readers, based on the text and commentary of the well-known Stone Tanach.

The Mesorah Heritage Foundation is raising funds to distribute an Outreach Edition of the ArtScroll English Tanach through qualified chinuch and kiruv organizations to Jewish university students, military personnel, and other Jewish population groupings. To find out if your organization qualifies, please CLICK HERE to review the program guidelines.

Questions? Please contact Gavriel Sanders at the Mesorah Heritage Foundation - sanders@mesorah.org.

Tel: 718-921-9000 x-244. Direct line: 347-219-4045.

Come to the AJOP Convention to see a sample of this tremendous publication and fill out a form for your organization!

Special Management Training Program
January 18, 2011 9:30-1 pm

"Everything You Always Wanted To Know About
Professionally Running Your Organization But Didn't Learn In Kollel"

The workshop will cover:

* How to manage your most precious asset - yourself and the professionals on your team.

* How to walk the political bridge without falling off and (maybe even) making it to the other side - alive.

* How do you define and measure "Success"?

* How to think inside, out of, around, in between and when there is no box.

* How to get your passionate message across.

* How to manage change in your organization.

Presented by Rabbi Steven Burg -- International Director, NCSY

Special Social Media Training Program
January 18, 2011 9:30-1 pm

"Creating a Customized Strategic Marketing Plan for your Program Using the Internet and Social Media"

The workshop will cover:

* How to get your emails out of the spam filters and into the inbox

* How to build your dream opt-in list

* How to use Facebook, linked in and other social networking tools to get your message to go viral

* How to move your site onto the first page of google for free

Presented by Rabbi David Felsenthal, Director of Alumni, NCSY

YU Launches Hebrew Mentoring Workshop An Article from Ynet News Yeshiva University announced recently that seven honors students from the Yeshiva University high schools will be participating in a new independent study Hebrew literature course. Continue Reading

New You Tube Site Helps Charities Attract Attention and Revenue An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy A new YouTube channel that collects videos posted by nonprofit groups and sorts them by cause will donate a portion of the advertising revenue from views of the clips to the charities, according to the technolofy news site Mashable. Continue Reading

What Kissinger Missed About Jewish Emigration An Article from The Washington Post In his op-ed on Sunday, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger apologized for "undoubtedly offensive" comments he made 37 years ago about the fate of Soviet Jews. Continue Reading

Haredi Schools Resist Israel's Efforts to Impose Core Curriculum
An Article from The Forward

A tug-of-war is taking place over the government's attempt to impose a core curriculum in ultra-Orthodox elementary and high schools.

Why Israelis Emigrate
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

For some time now, a number of pundits have been advancing the following argument. Continue Reading

Western Wall Gets iPhone App
An Article from Ynet News

IPhone users can now visit Judaism's holiest prayer site from anywhere in the world. Continue Reading

In China, Talmud Sold as Business Guide
An Article from Newsweek
more varsity heads added their

Jewish visitors to China often receive a snap greeting when they reveal their religion: "Very smart, very clever, and very good at business," the Chinese person says. Continue Reading

Polish Gold Diggers at Treblinka Death Camp?
An Article from Polish News

A Golden Harvest, which will be in bookstores in Poland in February, could cause as much controversy as Gross's Neighbours (2001), which described a pogrom by Poles against Jews in the town of Jedwabne. Continue Reading

Japanese Reverend Devotes Life to Shoah Education
An Article from The Forward

When Rabbi Yeshayahu Greenfeld interrupted a fourth grade class at North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck, N.Y., with a hearty greeting in Hebrew, the students responded without much enthusiasm. It was, after all, a Monday morning.

Chilean Jews Outraged Over Senator's Anti-Semitic Remarks
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

A US Jewish group on Monday rebuked a lawmaker in Chile for calling his country's Jewish community an "agent" of Israel. Continue Reading

UK Terror Gangs: Rabbis Also Targets
An Article From Ynet News

The US State Department said Monday the US embassy and the Stock Exchange in London were two main targets of a terror group arrested last week in the UK. Continue Reading

Jews in Former Soviet Union Struggle to Survive
An Article from Ynet News

Tens of thousands of elderly Jews living in the Commonwealth of Independent States are no longer receiving stipends for food and medicine, and the Jewish school system is on the brink of collapse. Continue Reading

Scholars: Jews Read Greek Bible Well into Middle Ages An Article from The Jewish Journal Experts at Cambridge University have made a major discovery about the history of the Bible. Continue Reading
The Failure of Holocaust Education An Article from The Weekly Standard Last month, the Canadian journalist Richard Klagsbrun drew attention to a newly submitted Master's thesis at the University of Toronto's ed school: "The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education." Continue Reading

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