AJOP Update: The Jews We Leave Behind

August 18, 2011 - 18 Av 5771

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OUTREACH

Addressing Our Youth with Old Wine in a New Vessel

One Jew at a Time: Kiruv in Colombia

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

The Jews We Leave Behind

NORTH AMERICA

Young Russian Jews in Assimilation Bind

Orthodox Family Fined $300 for Fruit, Veggies in Backpack at Newark Liberty

Former Times Reporter Looks Back on Crown Heights Riots and Reflects on Reporting Inaccuracies

Judge: NYS Kosher Laws are Kosher

Judaica Store Near Diamond District Closing Its Doors

Jewish Professor Wins Bias Case Against Wisconsin College

ISRAEL

In an Ancient Jerusalem Tunnel, 2,000 Year Old Tools of War Discovered

Stuxnet Virus Opens New Era of Cyber War

In Land of Milk & Honey, No Money for Cottage Cheese

Birthright Has Fun Day on Tisha B'Av

INTERNATIONAL

Tutu's War on Israel, Jews

Arab Newspaper Reports: So Called Destruction of 'Alleged' Temples

The Soviet Slaughter of Russia's Jewish Elite

Norway's Jewish Obssession

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Five Towns Camp Offers Cool Summer for Special Needs Kids

Venturing Beyond the Ultra-Orthodox World

Rabbi Kanefsky Writes That He Cannot Recite the Blessing "Shelo Asani Ishah"

Ancient Midrashic Tale Comes to Life Through Modern Animation

Joe Lieberman Scaled Political Heights, But Wants Legacy to be the Sabbath

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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

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Addressing Our Youth with Old Wine in a New Vessel An Article from Yated A true mechanech never stops being a mechanech regardless of his age and regardless of whether or not he is formally teaching in a classroom or holds a position in chinuch. Continue Reading
One Jew at a Time: Kiruv in Colombia An Article from Hamodia The fact that they didn't know a word of Spanish was only one of the difficulties that Rabbi and Mrs. Yehoshua Rosenfeld had to deal with when they first arrived in Bogota in 1980. Continue Reading

The Jews We Leave Behind An Article from eJewish Philanthropy In psychotherapy, the YAVIS client is "Young, Attractive, Verbal, Intelligent and Successful." YAVIS clients have the best prognosis, yet remain the longest in treatment. Continue Reading

You ng Russian Jews in Assimilation Bind
An Article from The Jewish Week

Like 500 other young Jews from the former Soviet Union who marched in this year's Celebrate Israel Parade in June, Boris Shulman wore bright orange.

Orthodox Family Fined $300 for Fruit, Veggies in Backpack at Newark Liberty
An Article from CBS News

A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate - all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.

Former Times Reporter Looks Back on Crown Heights Riots and Reflects on Reporting Inaccuracies
An Article from The Jewish Week

Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 - the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed - my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights.

Judge: NYS Kosher Laws are Kosher
An Article from The Jewish Week

New York State's kosher laws, rewritten in 2004 to make them a labeling and disclosure law, are constitutional, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled last week in dismissing a suit by the Commack, L.I., butchers who successfully challenged the original law. Continue Reading

Judaica Store Near Diamond District Closing Its Doors
An Article from The Jewish Week

One of two Judaica stores in midtown Manhattan will be gone by the end of the month, a victim of the soft economy and stiff rents on a busy side street. Continue Reading

Jewish Professor Wins Bias Case Against Wisconsin College
An Article from Courthouse News Service

A technical college must reinstate and pay $555,000 to a history professor who convinced a jury that the school called him a "litigious Jew" and fired him. Continue Reading

In an Ancient Jerusalem Tunnel, 2,000 Year Old Tools of War Discovered
An Article from The Washington Post

Archaeologists say artifacts discovered in an ancient drainage tunnel under Jerusalem are left over from war 2,000 years ago.

Stuxnet Virus Opens New Era of Cyber War
An Article from Speigel

The complex on a hill near an interchange on the highway from Tel Aviv to Haifa is known in Israel simply as "The Hill." The site, as big as several soccer fields, is sealed off from the outside world with high walls and barbed wire -- a modern fortress that symbolizes Israel's fight for survival in the Middle East. Continue Reading

In Land of Milk & Honey, No Money for Cottage Cheese
An Article from The Jewish Week

After taxes, Orit Mizrachi, a secretary, takes home about $1,400 a month, while her husband, a factory worker, takes home about $1,550.

Birthright Has Fun Day on Tisha B'Av
An Article from Ynet News

Teenagers visiting Israel with the Taglit-Birthright program were taken for a day of fun at a spa on Tisha B'Av, Ynet learned Sunday.

Tutu's War on Israel, Jews
An Article from Ynet News

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose role in the fight against South African apartheid in the 1980s gained him the Nobel Peace Prize and global fame, is among the world's most respected figures.

Arab Newspaper Reports: So Called Destruction of 'Alleged' Temples
An Article from World Net Daily

Earlier this week, on a day that Jews worldwide fasted and mourned the destruction of their holiest site, the official Palestinian Authority newspaper reported on the "so-called destruction" of the "alleged" Jewish Temple. Continue Reading

The Soviet Slaughter of Russia's Jewish Elite
An Article from Jewish Ideas Daily

On August 12, 1952, thirteen major Soviet Jewish figures were executed for espionage, bourgeois nationalism, "lack of true Soviet spirit," and treason, including a plot to hand the Crimea over to American and Zionist imperialists. Continue Reading

Norway's Jewish Obsession
An Article from Ynet News

After the despicable Breivik murders, the Norwegian obsession with Jews continues unabated. Continue Reading


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Five Towns Camp Offers Cool Summer for Special Needs Kids
An Article from The Jewish Week

On a recent sunny Thursday, the administration of Kulanu pulled out all the stops for its summer program participants. Continue Reading

Venturing Beyond the Ultra-Orthodox World
An Article from NPR

New York City receives immigrants from all over the world, including New York City itself. A handful of young ultra-Orthodox Jews are struggling to leave their neighborhoods in Brooklyn to take up less religious or even nonreligious lifestyles in other parts of the city.

Rabbi Kanefsky Writes That he Cannot Recite the Blessing 'Shelo Asani Ishah'
An Article from Matzav

Recently, Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, one of six national officers of the International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF) and rabbi of a West Coast Orthodox Union congregation, published a deeply disturbing internet article on the "Morethodoxy" website. Continue Reading

Ancient Midrashic Tale Comes to Life Through Modern Animation
An Article from The Jewish Tribune

One of the most ancient tales from the Torah has been created in the newest style of CGI animation to form a three-dimensional world where characters and cities exist in an animated platform on the computer. Continue Reading

Joe Lieberman Scaled Political Heights But Wants His Legacy to be the Sabbath
An Article from JTA

Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelist. The Independent senator from Connecticut -- and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics -- is probably more cognizant than most of his Jewish congressional colleagues about rabbinical interdictions against encouraging non-Jews to mimic Jewish ritual. Continue Reading

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