Lakewood, NJ

Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun

Mr. Jerry Wolasky 

 

Brooklyn, NY

Teaneck, NJ

In appreciation for the work of our fellow AJOP professionals, we are pleased to offer two nights at the hostel free of charge to anyone who mentions their Rabbi/Rebbetzin's name when they stay with us (otherwise it's 20 shekels!). Please book NOW (heritagehouse@gmail.com) to request space for Shabbatonim and to request availability as our beds are filling up very quickly this summer!   

 

Guests of the Heritage House are matched with families in Old City of Jerusalem for Shabbat meals and introduced to classes at leading yeshivot and seminaries.   

 

Click Here to book and to find out more information! 

 

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An Article from Ner Le'Elef

In a previous article, Rabbi Michoel Green discussed matching donation programs, which are one of the many forms of corporate giving.
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42% of Its Donor-Advised Fund Gifts Are Unrestricted, Fidelity Says
An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The average donor at Fidelity Charitable, the nation's largest provider of donor-advised funds, opens a fund at age 54 and makes almost seven grants a year, worth an average of $3,773 apiece, according to a new report that shows for the first time the giving patterns of Fidelity's donors.  Continue Reading

Nonprofits Fight Overhaul of Government's Charity Drive
An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy

An Obama administration plan to overhaul the federal government's charity drive has angered nonprofits that say the changes would be a major blow to an effort that raised $258-million last year for nearly 25,000 groups. Continue Reading

  

  

On June 16, three Jewish women will be ordained as Orthodox members of the clergy in the inaugural graduation ceremony of Yeshivat Maharat, which bills itself on its website as "the first institution to ordain Orthodox women as Spiritual leaders and Halakhic authorities."
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An Article from Washington Jewish Week

Ira Forman, the Jewish outreach director during President Obama's re-election bid and a former founder and CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, is the new U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, it was announced Monday by Secretary of State John Kerry.  Continue Reading 

 

Thousands of Haredim Protest in Lower Manhattan
An Article from JTA

Until now, the primary storyline of the religious-secular battles in Israel has been driven by Women of the Wall, the activist group that with its monthly prayer meetings at Jerusalem's Western Wall has brought more attention to the quest for religious equality in Israel than has been seen in years. Continue Reading

US Government Uncovers Long-Lost Diary of Top Nazi Leader
An Article from The Forward

The U.S. government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two. Continue Reading

A Brooklyn-Based Prayer Leader Heralds a Revolution in Jewish Music
An Article from Tablet Magazine

On a recent Saturday evening, as Shabbat began to fade, two dozen men and women, most in their 20s and early 30s, were slowly belting out a long niggun, a wordless melody, sitting in a close circle in the chapel of a Brooklyn synagogue. Continue Reading

 

An Israeli film maker who is admittedly "obsessed" with the Holocaust is finally putting to rest the myth that the  urban myth that the Nazis used the remains of Jewish bodies to create bars of soap.

 

Montreal's Jewish federation says there is no evidence that fire bomb attacks on two kosher restaurants and a private home in a heavily Jewish suburb over three days are anti-Semitic in nature.

Iran's servants, an armed ethnic party and a faction parallel to al-Qaeda were only some of the labels applied over the weekend to Hezbollah in the Arab media, days after its participation in the battle for the Syrian strategic town of Qusair.