AJOP Update: Last Day to Register for AJOP Convention 2012 & Inaugural InReach Conference!

January 12, 2012 - 17 Teves 5772

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

Defining Our Mission Statement for the Next Decade-Rabbi Sholom Kamenetsky

See Updated AJOP Convention Schedule!

The InReach Promise: Coming Closer to Hashem

Rabbi Rietti's Game Changing System for Helping Kids Experience Emunah

OUTREACH

History in the Making: A Sephardic Renaissance in Vienna

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Why Funders Must Embrace Failure

NORTH AMERICA

Why Antisemitism is Moving Toward the Mainstream

Email Reveals Antisemitism at US Think Tank

Rand Paul: Why My Father is Misunderstood on Israel

Prospect Park Frum: New MO Community in Brooklyn

ISRAEL

Rabbi Lau: Shouts of "Nazi!" Cause me Nightmares

Retired Generals Say is it Time to Draft Ultra-Orthodox

'Jerusalem is Becoming a Ghost Town'

Saudi Hacker Claims He is in Possession of 1 Million Israeli Credit Card Numbers

INTERNATIONAL

Seeking the Truth for European Jewry

ADL Outraged by Antisemitism Conspiracies Circulating in Chilean Patagonia

Dutch Lawmaker Demands Country Apologize for WW II Jewish Deportations

Queen of England Selects Jews for Extraordinary People List

Every Polish Town Had Own Holocaust

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Workplace Happiness and the Jewish Question

Rick Santorum was in Jewish Frat

Held in Contempt by the Rabbis

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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

Defining Our Mission Statement for the Next Decade

Parsha

Rabbi Sholom Kamenetsky

Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva of Philadelphia

Monday January 16, 2012 at the AJOP Convention

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Rabbi Rietti's Game Changing System for Getting Kids to Experience Emunah

Rabbi Rietti, who holds a Masters in Education and speaks worldwide, has left a profound impact on schools through his Emunah timeline presentation. Speaking to mechanchim and students alike (in separate sessions), Rabbi Rietti's crash course in Jewish history takes listeners on a whirlwind tour through 6,000 of Jewish history in about an hour.

Armed with pesukim, stories and visual aides, Rabbi Rietti tells listeners about the Torah's 21 prophetic predictions and demonstrates how Hashem's hand in Jewish affairs has always been unmistakeably visible.

He observes: "This is a shift in how to communicate emunah through EXPERIENCE and not just in a typical lecture format. It has been featured at all the last few Gateway seminars and is extremely well received."

For kiruv professionals, Rabbi Rietti's appraoch to teaching emunah is a powerful tool for beginners and the already Orthodox alike. At the AJOP Convention on January 15-17 at the Stamford Plaza Hotel, experience Rabbi Rietti's crash course in emunah for yourself and learn how to apply it to your outreach (or inreach) opportunities.

History in the Making: A Sephardic Renaissance in Vienna

An Article from Hamodia

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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Why Funders Need to Embrace Failure An Article from The Jewish Week Before there was Birthright Israel, the most successful Jewish communal effort to increase Jewish identity among young people, there was The Israel Experience, a like-minded effort - and acknowledged failure. Continue Reading

Why Antisemitism is Moving Toward the Mainstream
An Article from From Page Magazine

For the first time since the end of World War II, classic anti-Semitic tropes-"the Jews" control the world and are to blame for everything that goes wrong, including the financial crisis.

Email Reveals Antisemitism at US Think Tank
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

A senior employee of the US think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) appears to have admitted in an e-mail sent from his CAP account that a blogger for the policy organization used anti-Semitic language to attack supporters of the Jewish state. Continue Reading

Rand Paul: My Father is Misunderstood on Israel
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's views on Israel and Iran have been greatly misunderstood, his son Senator Rand Paul said in a conversation with The Jerusalem Post just hours before Iowans voted in the first caucuses for the GOP nomination Tuesday night. Continue Reading

Prospect Park Frum: New MO Community in Brooklyn
An Article from The Jewish Week

On most nights, Wolf and Deer, a trendy new wine bar owned by a pair of Sabras in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, attracts a fashionable crowd sipping an international selection of wines and beers. Continue Reading

Rabbi Lau: Shouts of "Nazi!" Cause Me Nightmares
An Article from Arutz 7

el Aviv-Yafo (Jaffa)'s Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau says he was shocked to see a photograph of a Jewish boy wearing a yellow star in last week's hareidi religious demonstration in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim.

Saudi Hacker Warns He is in Possession of 1 Million Israeli Credit Card Numbers
An Article from Haaretz

The Saudi hacker who managed to steal 15 thousand Israeli credit cards revealed another 11 thousand stolen numbers on Thursday, and threatened to release one million total stolen numbers. Continue Reading

Retired Generals Say It's Time to Draft Ultra-Orthodox
An Article from Israel Hayom

Fifteen former major-generals sign petition calling on government to abandon policy of exempting ultra-Orthodox from IDF service, advocating mandatory service that is "tailored to all Israelis" Continue Reading

'Jerusalem is Becoming a Ghost Town'
An Article from The Jewish Week

Molly Livingstone and David Tanami, a young couple in Jerusalem, were forced to move from the tree-lined neighborhood of Katamon to Armon Hanatziv (East Talpiot), a far-cheaper neighborhood. Continue Reading

Seeking the Truth for European Jewry
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

For a long time, from 1945 to the present day, the lives of Jews in Europe have been like a broken record. The same people have remained in power, and the word that describes the situation best is "monotony."

ADL Outraged by Antisemitisc Conspiracies Circulating in Chilean Patagonia
An Article from The Anti Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League today expressed outrage over the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories circulating on Chilean web sites blaming Jews and the State of Israel for deliberately setting the tragic fire in the environmental preserve of Torres del Paine Park in the Chilean Patagonia.

Dutch Lawmaker Demands Country Apologize for WW II Jewish Deportations
An Article from Haaretz

utspoken Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders called on the government Wednesday to apologize for the country's "passive" response to the mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II. Continue Reading

Queen of England Selects Jews for Extraordinary People List
An Article from The Algemeiner

Each year a select number of people across the UK are chosen by the Queen as part of 'The New Years Honours List'. According to the British Government, "The New Year's Honours List is published, recognising the achievements and service of nearly 1000 extraordinary people across the United Kingdom". Continue Reading

Every Polish Town Had Own Holocaust
An Article from The Forward

Every Polish town and village had its own Holocaust. That's what Zuzanna Radzik wants Polish children to learn. Continue Reading


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Workplace Happiness and the Jewish Question
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

For the past several months, The Chronicle of Philanthropy has reported on a growing and troubling trend - the increasing unhappiness among nonprofit organizational employees. Continue Reading

Rick Santorum was in Jewish Frat
An Article from Tablet Magazine

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who had an extremely strong second-place showing in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses and thus heads into next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary with a lot of momentum, is a strict Catholic whose politics are profoundly informed by his faith. Continue Reading

Held in Contempt by the Rabbis
An Article from Washington Jewish Week

There is an ongoing drama taking place in the Greater Washington, D.C., area. While the main protagonist (the woman) no longer resides in Silver Spring, the antagonist (the man) continues to do so.

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