AJOP Update: Who is a Jew Crisis Moves into Aliyah Sphere

February 24, 2011 - 20 Adar I 5771

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A Girl's Guide to Making the Most of Your Year in Israel New AJOP Publication!

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Jonathan Rosenbloom: Outlook on the 23rd AJOP Convention

OUTREACH

PJ Library Now Speaking Volumes in Publishing World

An Entirely (Surprising?) Side of Birthright Rights

A Rabbi Responds to His Atheist Critics

Etz Chaim Hosts 34th Anniversary Banquet Melaveh Malka

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Is Jewish Philanthropy on the Ropes?

You Tube Looks for the Best Non-Profit Videos of 2010

NORTH AMERICA

From Soviet Jewry Activist to LA Mayor?

90 Year Old Chicago Man Tied to Nazi Police Facing Deportation

Obama's Anti Israel Agenda

Helen Thomas: Jews Didn't Need to Leave Europe After Holocaust

Drawing Lessons From Brooklyn College Uproar

ISRAEL

'Holy Dove' Drives Yeshiva Wild

Diaspora Teens Get Taste of Life in IDF

Plan for School Trips to Hebron Raises Praise, Ire

Sheransky: More Converts Should be Allowed to Immigrate

Who is a Jew Crisis Moves into Aliyah Sphere

INTERNATIONAL

New Zealand Chabad House Destroyed in 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake

Stop Displaying Religious Objects, Court Orders Cab Driver

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Tough Choice: School Scholarship or Summer Camp?

Rabbi Police Chaplain Cleared of 'Hateful' Language Towards Homosexuals

High School Athlete Refuses to Wrestle Female Opponent

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Jerusalem, Israel

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Los Angeles, CA

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Northbrook, IL

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Lakewood, NJ

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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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Baltimore, MD

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Lawrence, NY

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Baltimore, MD

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Jerusalem, Israel

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Baltimore, MD
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New York, NY

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Baltimore, MD

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Olney, MD
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Toronto, ONT

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Cincinnatti, OH

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Brooklyn, NY

Rabbi Dovid Refson

Jerusalem, Israel

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Detroit, MI

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Teaneck, NJ

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Jonathan Rosenbloom: Outlook on the 23rd AJOP Convention An Article from Mishpacha Magazine This year's Association of Jewish Outreach Professionals (AJOP) convention included a broader-than-usual spectrum of kiruv workers from across Orthodox Jewry. Continue Reading


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PJ Library Now Speaking Volumes in Publishing World
An Article from The Jewish Week

Laurel Snyder, a poet and author based in Atlanta, had been "noodling around" with the idea of writing children's books for a while. Continue Reading

An Entirely (Surprising?) Side of Birthright Rights
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

I warmly applaud Stephen Muss for his well-argued and, in my view, eminently justified plea on behalf of the birth-rights of Diaspora high school age Jewish teens to a meaningful Israel learning experience at least in equal measure with their college and post-college age counterparts. Continue Reading

A Rabbi Responds to His Atheist Critics
An Article from The Huffington Post

Dear Non-Theist friends, I was surprised and gratified to receive so much feedback to my first attempt at dialogue. Continue Reading

Etz Chaim Hosts 34th Anniversary Banquet Melaveh Malka
An Article from Baltimore Jewish Life

On Motzoei Shabbos, February 20, the Etz Chaim Center for Jewish Studies hosted their 34^th Anniversary Banquet. Continue Reading

Is Jewish Philanthropy on the Ropes? An Article from eJewish Philanthropy Just recently, I read an interesting report about the planned closure of several major Jewish philanthropies in the US. Continue Reading
You Tube Looks for the Best Non-Profit Videos of 2010 An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy For the first time in four years, Americans are saying they are more likely to increase their giving to charity rather than decrease their charitable support. Continue Reading

From Soviet Jewry Activist to LA Mayor?
An Article from The Forward

The movement to free Soviet Jewry was just heating up in 1971 when Zev Yaroslavsky and a crew of co-conspirators steered a rented motorboat across Los Angeles Harbor and, with hasty strokes of spray paint, delivered a seaborne message to the Kremlin: "Let Jews Go."

90 Year Old Chicago Man Tied to Nazi Police Facing Deportation
An Article from Courthouse News Service

Removal proceedings can continue against a naturalized citizen who belonged to a Nazi-sympathizing organization during World War II, the 7th Circuit ruled. Continue Reading

Obama's Anti-Israel Agenda
An Article from The Washington Times

President Obama is siding with Israel's enemies. He is slowly fracturing America's long-standing alliance with the Jewish state and leaving it isolated on the world stage. Continue Reading

Helen Thomas: Jews Didn't Have to Leave Europe After Holocaust
An Article from Haaretz

The Jews did not have to leave Germany and Poland following the Holocaust since they were not being persecuted anymore, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas said in an interview on Thursday. Continue Reading

Drawing Lessons From Brooklyn College Uproar
An Article from The Jewish Week

Some 50 students, professors and activists turned out Feb. 3 for a rally celebrating the appointment of Kristofer Petersen-Overton to an adjunct teaching position at Brooklyn College.
Continue Reading

'Holy Dove' Drives Yeshiva Wild
An Article from Ynet News

When she was young, Rivkah, a Jerusalem resident belonging to the Belz Hasidic movement, never dreamed that at the age of 44 she would be leaving the maternity ward with her 18th child.

Diaspora Teens Get Taste of Life in IDF
An Article from The Guardian

At Jerusalem's Western Wall, in blustery rain one evening this week, a couple of hundred young soldiers stood to attention to sing Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah, or Hope, at a ceremony to mark the end of their stint in the army. Continue Reading

Plan for School Trips to Hebron Garners Praise, Ire
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Politicians on the Right and Left traded barbs on Wednesday over Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar's new plan to bring schoolchildren on field trips to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Continue Reading

Sharansky: More Converts Should Be Allowed to Immigrate
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky intends on Tuesday morning to suggest that the agency identify those Diaspora communities whose converts can immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return. Continue Reading

Who is a Jew Crisis Moves into Aliyah Sphere
An Article from The Jewish Week

Thomas Dohlan, who converted to Judaism in an Orthodox Canadian beit din, never anticipated that Israel's Interior Ministry might question his Jewishness and block his bid to make aliyah. Continue Reading

New Zealand Chabad House Destroyed in 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake
An Article from Chabad.orgded their

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand's second-largest city Tuesday morning, sending buildings crashing to the street and toppling the city's central Chabad-Lubavitch center. Continue Reading

Stop Displaying Religious Objects, Court Orders Cab Driver
An Article from JTA

A Jewish taxi driver in Montreal may not display religious artifacts and other objects in his cab, a Quebec court ruled. Continue Reading

Tough Choice: School Scholarship or Summer Camp?
An Article from The Jewish Week

Parents already reeling from the high cost of active Jewish life may soon be facing a difficult choice for their high school children between tuition scholarship for day school and a summer camp or summer-in-Israel experience. Continue Reading

Rabbi Police Chaplain Cleared of 'Hateful' Language Towards Homosexuals
An Article from Life Site News

The York Regional Police have rejected an "unsubstantiated" complaint against their Jewish chaplain after a homosexualist Jewish group alleged he had used "hateful" language toward homosexuals. Continue Reading

High School Athlete Refuses to Wrestle Female Opponent
An Article from CNN

A high school wrestler in wrestling-crazy Iowa forfeited a tournament match Thursday after refusing to grapple with a female opponent. Continue Reading

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