AJOP Update: Why Isn't It News When Jews Die?

March 17, 2011 - 11 Adar II 5771

AJOP Convention January 15-17, 2012 Save the Date!

Ohr Somayach Purim Handbook

Purim in 60 Minutes Or Less

Passover Across America

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OUTREACH

Six New Federation Projects Reaching Out to Young Unaffiliated Families

Can Judaism Stay Cool Beyond Vegas Desert?

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Board Members as 'Pro Bono' Consultants

NORTH AMERICA

Jewish Day Schools in Squirrel Hill Offer Free Tuition for a Year

Do American Jews Still Care About Israel?

NPR Promised to Hide Muslim Organization from Federal Scrutiny

Jewish Student Sues Berkeley Over Assault by Palestinian Supporter

FBI Detains Men Wearing Tefillin on Alaska Airlines Flight

ISRAEL

Why Isn't It News When Jews Die?

Israeli Rabbis Launch Initiative to Marry Gay Men to Lesbian Women

Israel May Hold Third Largest Reserves of Oil Shale

BBC Poll Shows Israel Fourth Hated Country in the World

INTERNATIONAL

Over 100 Countries Have Recognized State of Palestine

Come & Convert Our Tribe-Jewish Uganda

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Jewish Billionaires & The Full Forbes List

Princeton, Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia Took Money from Arab Dictators

Conservative Movement's College Kids Mobilize

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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

AJOP Wishes Klal Yisrael a Purim Sameach!

Ohr Somayach Purim Handbook Ohr Somayach is proud to offer our revised Purim Handbook as part of our Holiday Handbook series. With great Q/A and halachic overview, it is a tremendous asset for schools, synagogues and organizations. Click Here to access the Purim Handbook

Purim in 60 Minutes or Less! Partners in Torah is proud to present their Purim 2011 publication. Filled with useful facts and insights, as well as a basic guide to Purim, this concise edition is perfect for synagogues, outreach centers and the unaffiliated. Click Here to access Purim in 60 Minutes Or Less

Passover Across America

You are invited to partner with NJOP through its Passover Across America initiative by offering an explanatory seder this Pesach to those who do not normally attend or who have not yet experienced a meaningful seder. Participating locations will be offered funding to publicize and in some cases- to help subsidize the cost of the sedarim. To learn more about Passover Across Asmerica, complete the linked form and you will receive a follow up phone call.

Click Here to Access the Application

Rabbi Meir Schuster-A Call to Action AJOP asks their subscribers to take a look at a website created to honor and help one of our generation's great, holy people. A man whose impact on the last two generations is breathtaking. A man who had a seminal and profound influence on so many countless individuals. He is in desperate, desperate condition. www.RebMeirSchuster.org

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Board Members as 'Pro Bono' Consultants An Article from eJewish Philanthropy Board members who function as pro-bono consultants may not be the best way to go. Continue Reading

Jewish Day Schools in Squirrel Hill Offer Free Tuition for a Year
An Article from Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Pittsburgh's Jewish day schools are offering a big incentive for students interested in switching to religious education.

Do American Jews Still Like Israel?
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Fifty-eight-year-old Helen Michaelson of Michigan is the figment of the imagination of a young Jewish-American writer named Aaron Hamburger. Continue Reading

NPR Promised to Hide Muslim Organization from Federal Scrutiny
An Article from Commentary Magazine

A National Public Radio fundraising executive told an activist posing as a member of a Muslim organization that NPR could accept his donation anonymously in order to shield his group from a federal-government audit. Continue Reading

Jewish Student Sues Berkeley Over Assault by Palestinian Supporter
An Article from Berkeley Side

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FBI Detains Men Wearing Tefillin on Alaska Airlines
An Article from Wordpress.com

Flight attendents on an Alaska Airlines flight to Los Angeles on Sunday interpreted an elaborate prayer ritual by Orthodox Jewish men onboard as a security threat and locked down the cockpit. Continue Reading

Why Isn't it News When Jews Die?
An Article from Spectator

Today the massacred Fogel family was buried in Jerusalem. And as anticipated, the moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the moral bankruptcy and worse of the British and American 'liberal' media.

Israeli Rabbis Launch Initiative to Marry Gay Men to Lesbian Women
An Article from Haaretz

Rabbis from the religious Zionist community have launched an initiative to marry gay men to lesbian women - with some surprising successes. Continue Reading

Israel May Hold Third Largest Reserves of Oil Shale
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Libyan oil accounts for less than 2 percent of world oil production, yet the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi has managed to shoot up the price of oil to more than $100 per barrel in the last month. Continue Reading

BBC Poll Shows Israel 4th Most Hated Country in the World
An Article from The Vicious Babushka

BBC poll surveying 27 countries shows that Israel is viewed as having a negative influence in the world; negative opinions in U.S. and U.K. increased over past year. Continue Reading

Over 100 Countries Have Recognized the State of Palestine
An Article from Foreign Policy Blogs Network d their

This week, both Denmark and Britain upgraded the status of the delegation of their Palestinian representatives. Both European nations moved their delegations from the third-ranked "general delegation" up to "mission." Continue Reading

Come & Convert Our Tribe-Jewish Uganda
An Article from The Jewish Chronicle

The story of the Abayudaya, Uganda's largest Jewish community, which is recognised by the Conservative movement, is well-known. Continue Reading

Jewish Billionaires & The Forbes Full List
An Article from Forbes

Google Founders, Bloomberg Among Forbes Millionaires

Princeton, Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia Took Money from Arab Dictators
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) is shocked - shocked! - to discover that Muammar Gaddafi is a very bad man. Continue Reading

Conservative Movement's College Kids Mobilize
An Article from The Jewish Week

A protest by students over the planned reorganization of the Conservative movement's Koach college program has won an acknowledgment that the program is important - but little else. Continue Reading

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