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Register Here for AJOP Convention January 15-17, 2012

AJOP Convention Program Highlights 

The InReach Promise: Coming Closer to Hashem

Social Media & Outreach: The Next Frontier? Digital Media Training 1/17/12 

 

OUTREACH  

 

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Jews and Donor Advised Funds: A Popular Vehicle 

New Study Reveals Significant Impact of Youth Philanthropy

   

NORTH AMERICA

US Jewish Leaders to Meet with Jonathan Pollard 

Obama to Reform Jews: Don't Let Anyone Challenge my Israel Bona Fides 

Nebraska Synagogue On Board for New Tri-Faith Neighborhood

Orthodox Jewish Voters Courted by GOP Presidential Field

Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein Feted at Occupy Boston

A Tourist's View of Jewish New York

Latest Numbers Released on US Jewish Population 

 

ISRAEL

New Law Allows Couples to Choose Rabbis for Wedding  

Israel's Haredim Expected to Triple by 2059 

      

   INTERNATIONAL

In Tiny Gibraltar, an Outsized Jewish Infrastructure 

Swedish Prof Insinuates Israel Tie to Brievak Terrorist Attack

Turkey's Chief Rabbi Defends Erdogan 

 

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If You Film It, Will They Come? 

     

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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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Speakers 2012

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Dave Weinberg-Digital Media

MarketSocial Media & Outreach: The Next Frontier?

  

With every online avenue easily accessible, how can you best promote your organization, event or campaign and get people through the door and coming back for more? Can you be successful just by sticking to places like Facebook and Twitter? If so, how? Does it pay to have a strategy in place? When do you need to "pound the pavement" in the real world and when can you turn to your social media strategy?       

 

Successful digital strategist Dave Weinberg discusses successes and failures from his own playbook as well as other models of campaigns and events from around the world. Learn to better identify opportunities and capitalize on them in order to achieve your goals. Successful recruitment is the key to success in the outreach world. In this half day seminar, learn from the best how to use digital media to maximize your potential and achieve your goals.

 

Tuesday January 17, 2012 at the AJOP Convention  

 




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chalutzim MichaelAfter 100 Years, Religion Reaches the Kibbutz

An Article by The New York Times

 
Three years ago, when Batya Safian was called up to the Torah at the synagogue of Kibbutz Matzuva, a Katyusha rocket landed on the main lawn of the kibbutz and exploded. Continue Reading 


outreacharticle2The Limmud Phenomenon Rekindles the Global Jewish Flame 

An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

 

"Participants report one of Limmud's strongest impacts is in connecting them to Jews "who are different than me." Bringing together Jews of all (and no) denominations, ages and nationalities, Limmud nurtures a profound sense of peoplehood even as it serves as a networking hub across Jewish communities." Continue Reading 

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donation fundraisingarticle1Jews and Donor Advised Funds: A popular Vehicle
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy


Although available for at least several decades, Donor Advised Funds (DAF) are generally considered a contemporary giving methodology for many philanthropically-focused donors today. Continue Reading

Fundraisingarticle2New Study reveals Significant Impact of Youth Philanthropy on Jewish Identity
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Young people who have participated in Rose Youth Foundation (RYF), a Denver-area Jewish youth philanthropy program that is among the first of its type in the country, feel a deepened sense of Jewish identity, believe that they can be changemakers and leaders, and continue to expand their involvement in Jewish life.
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pollard Namart1US Jewish Leaders to Meet with Pollard
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

 

Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard recently invited seven prominent American Jewish leaders to meet with him as a group at his Butner, North Carolina, prison cell. 

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Kissinger2Obama to Reform Jews: Don't Let Anyone Challenge my Israel Bona Fides
An Article from JTA

President Obama told a gathering of Reform Jewry not to let anyone challenge his record of support for Israel, which he said was "unprecedented." Continue Reading

Namart2Nebraska Synagogue On Board for New Tri-Faith Neighborhood
An Article from JTA

A Nebraska synagogue is joining in a gesture of ecumenicism with an Islamic institute and an Episcopalian church. Continue Reading

Namart4Orthodox Jewish Voters Courted by GOP Presidential Field 
An Article from The Huffington Post

When Newt Gingrich recently called Palestinians an "invented" people and refused to take it back, everyone from the liberal advocacy group J Street to the neoconservative Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) pushed back.   Continue Reading

Namart5Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein Feted at Occupy Boston
An Article from Big Government

Norman Finkelstein, one of America's leading anti-Semites in the academic world, was invited to speak at Occupy Boston for the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Continue Reading

Namart6A Tourist's View of Jewish New York
An Article from Mercury News

Museums and historic sites, the world's largest menorah, and a trendy new Tribeca restaurant inspired by an old-school Catskills resort. Continue Reading

Namart7Latest Numbers Released on US Jewish Population
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

The authors have endeavored to compile accurate estimates of local Jewish population, given the constraints involved in estimating the size of a rare population. Continue Reading
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chuppah israel1New Law Allows Couples to Choose Rabbis for Wedding
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill allowing residents to register for marriage in any municipality, marking a victory for Israel Beiteinu and religious-Zionist rabbinical group Tzohar.             
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israel2Israel's Haredim Expected to Triple by 2059
An Article from Ynet News

Parents of soldiers who recently completed an IDF medics' course were shocked to discover that in the invitation to the graduation ceremony they were instructed to arrive in "modest clothing."  Continue Reading
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cowInternational1In Tiny Gibraltar, an Outsized Jewish Infrastructure
An Article from JTA

Four synagogues, a mikvah, a kosher coffeehouse and separate boys and girls religious high schools.    

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International2Swedish Prof Insinuates Israel Ties to Terrorist Attack
An Article from The Local

Swedish-born Ola Tunander is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), a research institute where he has spent most of his career since receiving his PhD from Linköping University in 1989.  Continue Reading

International3Turkey's Chief Rabbi Defends Erdogan
An Article from Ynet news

Turkey's Jewry, which used to be one of the most influential Jewish communities in the Middle East, has turned into its own shadow since the Marmara affair. Continue Reading
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An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Background: This past Sunday, Bank Leumi, Israel's second largest bank, cancelled their 2 million Shekel YouTube/Facebook contest for nonprofits in Israel - in mid-contest. Continue Reading

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