AJOP Update: Klal Yisroel Needs You Now More Than Ever

January 5, 2012 - 10 Teves 5772

Last Week to Register for AJOP Convention January 15-17, 2012

Klal Yisroel Needs You Now More Than Ever

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The InReach Promise: Coming Closer to Hashem

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

OUTREACH

Engaging Teens Through Jewish Service Corps

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Tips for Hiring a Consultant

Resolved: No Fundraising Silos

Sustaining Innovation

NORTH AMERICA

Jewish Agency May Cut Aliyah Scholarships

FBI Nabs Fugitive 'Plotting to Kill Jews'

Reform Meets Amid Challenges

ISRAEL

Is Israel Headed Towards a Religious Civil War?

IDF Will Exempt Religious Soldiers From Events Where Women Sing

Teenagers Volunteer with Border Police

Israeli Author's Bid to be Listed as Having 'No Religion' Rejected by Supreme Court

Where do Haredim Stand on Haredi Violence?

Israeli Home Prices Continue to Fall, Tel Aviv Sees 40% Drop in Prices

INTERNATIONAL

Afghanistan's Last Jew Speaks

Scrolls Raise Questions as to Afghan Jewish History

Nazis' Granddaughter Meets Survivors

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Survivor Donates Prized Prayer Book to Yad Vashem

With Samoa Calendar Change, Question for Jews: When is Shabbat?

A Look at Jewish Social Media

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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

Klal Yisroel Needs You Now More Than Ever

An Editori al by Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun

Just before Rosh Hashanah, a p rominent kiruv professional wrote to me that he had been invited to speak at two di fferent Rosh Hashanah events. One was a high-profile kiruv prog ram; the other was a lesser-known activity for kids who were off the derech.

Social 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

Click Here to Register for the Social Media Seminar

Engaging Teens Through a Jewish Service Corps.

An Article from The Jewish Week

Over the last two decades a host of commissions and task forces have assessed how the Jewish community can reach out to post-bnai mitzvah teens. Continue Reading

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Tips for Hiring a Consultant

An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Recently, I came upon a community organization that was using a standard RFP (request for proposals) process to engage a consultant to assist with strategic planning.

Resolved: No Fundraising Silos

An Article from The Agitator

Use of multiple communication channels reflects the real world of donors ... if not yet the real world of some nonprofits!

Continue Reading

Sustaining Innovation
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Any professional or lay leader of a nonprofit organization is familiar with the perpetual quest for innovation. Continue Reading

Jewish Agency May Cut Aliyah Scholarships
An Article from Haaretz

Thousands of immigrants could be forced to drop out of school if the Jewish Agency moves forward with a plan to end scholarship funding at the end of the current academic year.

FBI Nabs Fugitive 'Plotting to Kill Jews'
An Article from World Jewish Daily

The F.B.I. in Lake Havasu City, Arizona arrested a white supremacist fugitive on Thursday in what may have foiled an antisemitic murder spree. Continue Reading

Reform Meets Amid Challenges
An Article from The Jewish Week

The metaphors abound. To Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the next president of the Union for Reform Judaism, it's a gas station. To Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the outgoing president, it's an anchor. To Stephen Sacks, the incoming chairman of Reform's board, it's a supermarket. Continue Reading

Is Israel Headed Towards Religious Civil War?
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Approximately 1,500 ultra-Orthodox men gathered at Shabbat Square in the capital's Geula neighborhood on Saturday night to protest what they called the "oppression" and "incitement" of the "secular community" against them.

IDF Will Exempt Religious Soldiers From Events Where Women Sing
An Article from Ynet News

The IDF General Staff forum has decided to adopt a special committee's recommendation to excuse religious soldiers from informal events which include women's singing, Ynet learned Monday. Continue Reading

Teenagers Volunteer with Border Police
An Article from Haaretz

"I consider it a form of pleasure. It simply provides me with values, and I love the action." This is how Reut, a high school senior from the Modi'in area, describes her experience as part of the "No'ar Magav" Border Police Youth. Continue Reading

Israeli Author's Bid to be Listed as Having 'No Religion' Rejected by Supreme Court
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The High Court of Justice denied a petition filed by author Yoram Kaniuk asking that citizens have the right to be recorded as having "no religion" in the population registry. Continue Reading

Where Do Israeli Haredim Stand on Haredi Violence?
An Article from JTA

The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. It's subject was an 8-year-old girl harassed by haredi men on the way to her Modern Orthodox girls' school in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh. Continue Reading

Israeli Home Prices Continue to Fall, Tel Aviv Sees 40% Drop in Prices
An Article from Ynet News

Reports issued by government ministries continue to point to a cool-down in Israel's housing market. According to the Treasury's Orot Adumim ("Red Lights") report published Sunday, the number of real estate transactions totaled only 4,600 in October 2011 - just slightly above the historic low of October 2008, on the eve of the global financial crisis.

Afghanistan's Last Jew Speaks
An Article from The Malaysian Insider

I had heard rumours that there was a Jew, apparently the last Jew in Afghanistan, living in Kabul when I was planning my trip there.

Scrolls Raise Questions as to Afghan Jewish History
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

An Afghan shepherd enters a wolves den perched high in the mountains of Samangan province looking for a sheep that went astray. Continue Reading

Nazi's Granddaughter Meets Survivors
An Article from Ynet News

A young German woman whose grandparents were Nazis is embracing Holocaust survivors in Israel. Continue Reading


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Survivor Donates Prized Prayer Book to Yad Vashem
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

When Holocaust survivor Irene Haya Weiss of Toronto heard her daughter was going to Yad Vashem to take part in an education seminar, she gave her a little blue prayer book to donate to the Holocaust museum. Continue Reading

With Samoa Calendar Change, Question for Jews: When is Shabbat?
An Article from JTA

The Pacific island nation of Samoa is taking 186,000 citizens through a national time warp by moving west of the international dateline, forfeiting the last Friday of 2011 and jumping straight from Thursday into Saturday. Continue Reading

A Look at Jewish Social Media
An Article from Ynet News

While Jews, since the times of Abraham and Moses have been on the cutting edge of media development for the last four thousand years, it seems Jewish organizations didn't really get the hang of social media. Continue Reading

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