AJOP Update: AJOP Convention this Sunday & Monday

January 13, 2011 - 8 Shevat 5771

23rd Annual International AJOP Convention

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New Release! A Girl's Guide to Making the Most of Your Seminary Year
Letter From Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun to the Kiruv Community

OUTREACH
The 'Chabar'-The Chabad Bar with Concerts, Torah Classes

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

NORTH AMERICA

The Real Danger of De-legitimizing Israel

Kosher Inspectors Eliminated
The Talmud Train Troops Make Getting to Work More Stimulating

ISRAEL
Israel High Court Allows Gender Segregation on Buses
Rabbis Take Stand on Road Safety
Conversion Bill Moratorium Extended

Netanyahu Challenges Federations on Birthright

Work on Small Kotel Begins

INTERNATIONAL
German Rabbi Warns Jews Not to Wear Identifiable Jewish Symbols
Albanian Jews Reject Appointment of New Chief Rabbi
How 100,000 Britons Have Chosen to Become Muslim
Hitler Exhibit Draws Nearly 1 Million in Berlin

ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Limmud UK: Success on a Grand Scale
Study Probes Religious Teens' Guilt

Who Needs Hebrew?

Shabbat in Liverpool: New CD Adapts Beatles' Songs for Services

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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

Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY

Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman

Baltimore, MD

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

Sign Up at the Convention to be a Distributor for 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

The 'Chabar'-The New Chabad Bar with Concerts, Torah Classes An Article from Ynet News Introducing : Chabar-a bar combined with a Chabad house in the center of Jerusalem's Nachlaot neighborhood. 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

The Real Danger of De-legitimizing Israel on Campus
An Article from JTA

There is a serious threat facing Israel's long-term standing in this country resulting from a prolonged campaign to de-legitimize the Jewish state on campus. But it's probably not what you think.

Kosher Inspectors Eliminated
An Article from The Wall Street Journal

New York state's kosher law-enforcement division has been gutted, sparking concerns in parts of the Jewish community that the cuts raise the risk of fraud in the billion-dollar-plus kosher-food industry. Continue Reading

The Talmud Train Troops Make Getting to Work More Stimulating
An Article from Vos Iz Neias

Back in 1991, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, 56, was approached by Aryeh Markovich on the LIRR. He wanted to know if the Orthodox rabbi would be willing to teach the Talmud on the 7:51 a.m. train from Far Rockaway to Manhattan. Continue Reading

Israel High Court Allows Gender Segregation on Buses
An Article from Ynet News

The High Court of Justice on Thursday ruled in favor of allowing 'kosher' bus lines, in which women and men sit separately, to serve ultra-Orthodox areas.

Rabbis Take a Stand on Road Safety
An Article from Ynet News

Chief Rabbinate Committee members held Monday a meeting on the endless carnage on Israel's roads and highways during which they decided that Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar would draft a special prayer. Continue Reading

Conversion Bill Moratorium Extended
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

All relevant parties in the Israeli government, including Shas and Yisrael Beteinu, as well as representatives of the Conservative and Reform movements, have agreed to extend the moratorium on legal actions that could change the status quo of conversions in Israel. Continue Reading

Netanyahu Challenges Federations on Birthright
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

"Yossi Beilin had an idea many years ago. He had an idea that we should bring young Jews from around the world - many young Jews to Israel. Continue Reading

Work on Small Kotel Begins
An Article from Arutz Sheva

For the first time in nearly 40 years, refurbishing work has begun on the Kotel HaKatan, the Small Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Continue Reading

German Rabbi Warns Jews Not to Wear Identifiable Jewish Symbols
An Article from The Daily Mailre varsity heads added their

Jews living near the German capital Berlin are being warned not to wear items of clothing that identify their religion as fears of neo-Nazi attacks rise. Continue Reading

Albanian Jews Reject Appointment of New Chief Rabbi
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Last month, the Albanian government appointed Rabbi Yoel Kaplan as the former communist country's first chief rabbi, amid much fanfare. Continue Reading

How 100,000 Britons Have Chosen to Become Muslim
An Article from The Daily Mail

The number of Muslim converts in Britain has passed 100,000, fuelled by a surge in young white women adopting the Islamic faith.

Hitler Exhibit Draws Nearly 1 Million in Berlin
An Article from Haaretz

The exhibition "Hitler and the Germans" in Berlin has been extended by three weeks because of the throngs of visitors it continues to attract, the German Historical Museum announced on Wednesday. Continue Reading

Limmud UK: Success on a Grand Scale
An Article from The Jewish Week

Two of the most successful efforts to strengthen Jewish identity in recent years were created, and have been sustained, in opposite ways. Continue Reading

Study Probes Religious Teens' Guilt
An Article from Ynet News

A new study performed by Bar-Ilan University has found that religious teens who are compelled to watch pornographic images are afterwards haunted by guilt and self-deprecation. Continue Reading

Who Needs Hebrew?
An Article from Jewish Ideas Daily

In 1967, on a visit to Jerusalem, the American novelist Saul Bellow met Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel's Nobel laureate in literature. Continue Reading

Shabbat in Liverpool: New CD Adapts Beatles' Songs for Services
An Article from JTA

When is it kosher to listen to the Beatles on the Sabbath?

When your chazan adapts the Kabbalat Shabbat Friday night service to the melodies of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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