AJOP Update: Why Are Jews Considered Rich?

May 12, 2011 - 8 Iyar 5771

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

Star-K Summer Kashrus Training Program

New Sefiros App From Torah Lab

OUTREACH

'Radical' Hebrew School Model Taking Shape

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

What Makes a Jewish Non-Profit Jewish?

Giving by Britain's Top Philanthropists Dipped by One-Third Last Year

NORTH AMERICA

Fighting Anti-Israel Sentiment at Rutgers

Reform Leaders Defend Jacobs in Face of Charge He Is Not Pro-Israel

Baltimore's Yeshivat Rambam Day School to Close

Chassidim Find Themselves in Spotlight Following Altered White House Photo

ISRAEL

81%: Shoah Survivors Treated Badly

Alienation From Israel Hitting Liberal Seminaries

Religious Police Academy Moving Forward

Chacham Ovadia Yosef Calls on Faithful to Quit Smoking

INTERNATIONAL

320 Years Later, Mallorca Apologizes for Inquisition

Visit to 1,000 Year Old Yeshiva

Austria's Jews Sue Israeli Central Archives

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Where Have All the Rabbis Gone?

Healing a Wounded Covenant: Children of Holocaust Survivors Reclaim Their Heritage

Man in the Technological Age

Black Hats Traditionally Worn by Orthodox & Chassidoc Jews, Now Trendy

Why Are Jews Considered Rich?

What's in a Name? Choosing Raba Over Rav, and Why

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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

Star K Kashrus Summer Training Program

Star-K will be holding its 8th annual Summer Kashrus Training Program July 25-28, 2011. This program will enhance the kiruv professional's understanding of kashrus to better assist the community with its kashrus needs. There is no charge for the course but the course is limited to 25 attendees.

For more information, please contact Rabbi Zvi Goldberg at 410-484-4110 ext. 219.

Click Here for the Application
Click Here for the article describing the program.

New Sefiros App From Torah Lab

Sefiros-the best selling day-by-day guidebook to Sefirat Haomer, by Rabbi Yaacov Haber has helped thousands make the time between Pesach and Shavuot a time of amazing personal growth. Now Sefiros can be part of your life on your iPhone of iPad.

The Sefiros app will not only remind you to cound the Omer, but it will make everyday of the Omer count. The fine print which until now has been reserved for the Kabbalists is available for your spiritual growth.

Click Here to Access the App

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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'Radical' Hebrew School Model Taking Shape An Article from The Jewish Week Rabbi Joy Levitt doesn't mince words when it comes to the part-time and mostly synagogue-based programs where the majority of American Jewish kids recieve their sole formal religious training. Continue Reading

What Makes a Jewish Non-profit Jewish? An Article from eJewish Philanthropy One of the questions continually asked is "What is Jewish about a Jewish non-profit organization? Continue Reading
Giving by Britain's Top Philanthropists Dipped by One-Third Last Year An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy Giving by Britain's 100 biggest donors dropped by 33 percent last year, writes Third Sector Online, citing the annual "rich list" from the latest edition of newspaper The Sunday Times. Continue Reading

Fighting Anti-Israel Sentiment at Rutgers
An Article from The Megillah

With one of the largest Jewish student populations in the country, you would be hard pressed to imagine the anti-Israel and concurrently anti-Semitic nature of the Rutgers University campus.

Reform Leaders Defend Jacobs in Face of Charge He Is not Pro-Israel
An Article from The Jewish Week

Responding to an ad from a small group of critics who insist that the president-designate of the Union of Reform Judaism is not sufficiently pro-Israel, the movement and its supporters pushed back this week with a series of statements this week defending him.

Baltimore's Yeshivat Rambam Day School to Close
An Article from JTA

Yeshivat Rambam, a Jewish day school in Baltimore, said it will be shutting down in June. Continue Reading

Chassidim Find Themselves in Spotlight Following Altered White House Photo
An Article From Vos Iz Neias

Though the Chasidic community tends to shun the limelight, the fallout following Der Tzeitung's altered photograph of the White House Situation Room has thrust both Chasidim and their way of life to the forefront of today's news. Continue Reading

81%: Shoah Survivors Treated Badly
An Article from Ynet News

The majority of the Israeli public is satisfied with the way the State of Israel commemorates the memory of the murdered Jews of Europe, according to a survey.

Alienation from Israel Hitting Liberal Seminaries
An Article from The Jewish Week

A second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary says her year-in-Israel experience, as part of her academic training, has been "enriching and incredibly painful" in terms of what she sees of Israel's relationship with the Palestinians.
Continue Reading

Religious Police Academy Moving Forward
An Article from Arutz 7

Israel's first religious police academy is close to opening its doors, with administrators in the process of selecting the first group of students. Continue Reading

Chacham Ovadia Yosef Calls on Faithful to Stop Smoking
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, president of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, has warned his followers of the dangers of smoking, and stressed the importance and plausibility of quitting if one is already addicted. Continue Reading

320 Years Later, Mallorca Apologizes for Inquisition
An Article from Yahoo News

More than three centuries years after 37 Jews from Mallorca were killed during the Spanish Inquisition for secretly practicing their faith, the island's leading government figure issued an official condemnation Thursday.

Visit to 1,000 Year Old Yeshiva
An Article from Ynet News

The courthouse of the French city of Rouen is an impressive Gothic building from the 15th century. For hundreds of years - in fact, since its establishment, the place was used by the district judicial authority. Continue Reading

Austria's Jews Sue Israeli Central Archives
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

A bitter legal dispute has erupted between the Jewish community of Austria and an archive in Israel over the ownership of thousands of historical documents. Continue Reading


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Where Have All the Rabbis Gone?
An Article from The Jewish Week

One of the little-discussed effects of the economic recession on the Jewish community is that more rabbis in the later stages of their careers are finding themselves out of work. Continue Reading

Healing a Wounded Covenant: Children of Holocaust Survivors Reclaim Their Heritage
An Article from Jewish Action

Children born in the post-Holocaust era of the 1940s, 50s and 60s grew up knowing their parents had gone through hell on earth. Continue Reading

Man in the Technological Age
An Article from Jewish Action

What is it that distinguishes mankind from the rest of the animal world? Most readers would respond that it is Man's power of reason, or his ability to speak, or perhaps it is the fact that he has a soul that makes him unique.

Black Hats Traditionally Worn by Orthodox & Chassidic Jews, Now Trendy
An Article from New York Magazine

The Borsalino hat, a wide-brimmed black felt fedora commonly worn by Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish sects, has now gotten trendy amongst hipster folks. Continue Reading

Why Are Jews Considered Rich?
An Article from Ynet News

Singer Roger Waters angered the Anti-Defamation League recently with a video screened during his concerts, which included images of planes dropping bombs in the shape of Jewish Stars of David, followed by dollar signs. Continue Reading

What's in a Name? Choosing 'Raba' Over Rav, and Why
An Article from The Forward

Kaya Stern-Kaufman is graduating from rabbinical school this spring, but she says she will not always be called "rabbi."
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