AJOP Update: Not So Observant's Orthodox Shabbat Experience

September 22, 2011 - 23 Elul 5771

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Avinu Malkenu 6 Event

Funding Opportunity from The Afikim Foundation for Mikarvim

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OUTREACH

No so Observant's Orthodox Shabbat

Campus Life 102: Trying Out Frum

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

The 10 Commandments for Optimizing Fundraising Success: Part I

NORTH AMERICA

Opinion: Why Obama is Losing the Jewish Vote

New Gallup Poll: Obama Slips with Jews

Survey Finds Strong Israel Related Attitudes Toward JTS Ordained Rabbis and Rabbinical Students

ISRAEL

Aliyah Now a Career Move for Young Jews

PLO Ambassador Says Palestinian State Should Be Free of Jews

Jewish Al-Jazeera Going on Air

NY Magazine Headline: 'Obama is the Best Thing Israel Has Going For It'

Palestinian Activists Hack Jewish Religious Facebook

INTERNATIONAL

Kosher Lifestyle No Longer Impossible in Berlin as City's Jewish Community Thrives

In Sicily, Jews Reach Out to Inquisition Era Forgotten Jews

Swedish Jews Get Help to Fight Anti-Semitism

Polish Jewish Museum to Open in 2013

Jewish Groups Worried by Vatican Gesture

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing the Jewish Future

Jewish School Graduate Focus on Themes of Persecution

Indiana Jones and the Lost Snail

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AJOP Board

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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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Not So Observant's Orthodox Shabbat
An Article from Insider

This is not my usual getting-ready-for-a-summer weekend routine, which generally consists of ... well ... shorts, a T-shirt and a nice glass of chardonnay.

Campus Life 102: Trying Out Frum

An Article from Reform Judaism Online

For the past week, my alarm has gone off every morning at seven-the click of the radio calling me to another day of altered consciousness.

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The 10 Commandments for Optimizing Fundraising Success-Part I An Article from Fundraising Success Nowadays, it's easy and very tempting to dive in to all the news technologies and techniques that pop up seemingly every day in the fundraising sector. Continue Reading

Opinion: Why Obama is Losing the Jewish Vote
An Article from The Wall Street Journal

New York's special congressional election on Tuesday was the first electoral outcome directly affected by President Obama's Israel policy.

New Gallup Poll: Obama Slips with Jews
An Article from Politico

President Barack Obama's support among Jews has dropped, new data shows. Four out of 10 Jewish Americans currently disapprove of Obama, according to polling data provided to POLITICO by Gallup.

Survey Finds Strong Israel Related Attitudes Toward JTS Ordained Rabbis and Rabbinical Students
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) has released a new survey of JTS-ordained rabbis and current rabbinical students showing continued strong attachment to Israel among both the students and their older colleagues. Continue Reading

Aliyah Now a Career Move for Young Jews
An Article from The Jewish Week

Two years ago, Gil Margulis was in a completely different place, emotionally and geographically. His New York life was losing its fizz, especially after the financial crisis killed his company. His solution: immigration.

PLO Ambassador Says Palestinian State Should be Free of Jews
An Article from USA Today

The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews. Continue Reading

Jewish Al-Jazeera Going on Air
An Article from Ynet News

Jews of the world, prepare your remote controls: The first-ever Jewish news network will begin broadcasts this Wednesday.

NY Magazine Headline: 'Obama is the Best Thing Israel Has Going For It'
An Article from Ynet News

"Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now," the New York Magazine's cover story declared on Monday. Continue Reading

Palestinian Activists Hack Religious Jewish Facebook
An Article from The Jewish Chronicle

A social networking site for the strictly Orthodox has received an unwelcome visitor. A pro-Palestinian hacker accessed the FaceGlat site this weekend and changed its homepage to show a message of Palestinian solidarity. Continue Reading

Kosher Lifestyle No Longer Impossible in Berlin as City's Jewish Community Thrives
An Article from The Washington Post

When Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg moved to Berlin some 15 years ago, he found it almost impossible to keep a kosher lifestyle.

In Sicily, Jews Reach Out to Inquisition Era Forgotten Jews
An Article from JTA

On her deathbed, Salvatore Zurzolo's grandmother confided a long-held secret: Their family was Jewish. Continue Reading

Swedish Jews Get Help to Fight Anti-Semitism
An Article from The Forward

Jews in Malmo, Sweden, lately a hotbed of anti-Semitic attacks, are responding positively to the Swedish government's decision to devote $622,000 to security for Sweden's Jewish community. Continue Reading

Polish-Jewish Museum Set to Open in 2013
An Article from Ynet News

An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, officials said Monday. Continue Reading

Jewish Groups Worried by Vatican Gesture
An Article from Ynet News

Some Jewish groups voiced concern Friday that the Vatican might be calling into question more than 40 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish relations by reaching out to a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics that includes a Holocaust-denying bishop. Continue Reading


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The Top 10 Non Jews Positively Influencing the Jewish Future
An Article from The Huffington Post

Last year, following the release of The Jerusalem Post's first list of the world's 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to create a list of my own -- not of Jews, but of non-Jews. Continue Reading

Jewish School Graduates Focus on Themes of Persecution
An Article from The Forward

Thousands of graduates of Jewish day schools will head off to college this September. But unlike graduates of public school, they will begin their higher education with credentials in Hebrew, Tanach and Talmud, along with mathematics, English literature and biology.

Indiana Jones and the Lost Snail
An Article from Israel Hayom

Zohar Amar, 51, of Neve Tzuf, is a professor in the Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Department at Bar-Ilan University. He is an indefatigable researcher who will not pass over, for example, what the Canaanites used as a painkiller. Continue Reading

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