February 26, 2015 - 7 Adar 5775

Million for Outreach Campaign Raises $1.36M in 24 Hours
Audio from Convention 2015 Now Available
Beis Medrash Fundraising Campaign in Memory of R' Dovid Winiarz z'l

OUTREACH

Start Birthright with Younger Teens

Where are All the Non-Orthodox Rabbis

Ivanka Trump and Husband Jared Kushner Tout Benefits of Shabbat Observance

Congregational Evolution

Jewish Backed Catholic School Celebrates First College Grads

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Companies Failing to Develop Millenial Leaders

Modern Orthodox Has Its Costs-Not Just Financial

NORTH AMERICA

Krauthammer: Where is the President in a Time of Conflict

Raging Rudy Giuliani Countering Islamic Fundamentalism

Muslim Leader Who Called Israel a 'Suspect' After 9/11 Meets with Biden at White House

On Relevance, Survival

ISRAEL

Widen the Israel Discussion on Campus
Massive Trove of Ancient Gold Coins Found Off Coast

INTERNATIONAL

Video: What Happens When an Orthodox Man Wanders Through Paris

Dozens of Graves Defaced in Northern France

Norwegian Muslims Volunteer to Protect Synagogue

Iran to US: We'll Do Whatever We Want

'I Wish I Didn't Have a Bat Mitzvah and Dan was Alive'

Emissary in Exile

Swedish Public Radio Asks: Are Jews Responsible for Antisemitism?

7 Axioms of the Copenhagen Terror Attacks

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

When Grandpa Was a Nazi

Western Leaders are Impotent in the Face of Terror

Opinion: Why We Need to Redefine 'Orthodoxy'

When Modern Medicine Fails, an Old Folktale Offers Comfort

Beware the Holocaust-Themed Selfie

Who Speaks for the Jews?

'No One Stuck Up for Us'

What's So Wrong with Cameron Diaz's Jewish Wedding

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R' Dovid Winiarz z'l

The Winiarz family is currently spearheading a campaign to build a Beis Medash in Staten Island in R' Dovid's memory. Please click the link below to donate to the fund.

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AJOP and the Jewish people lost a beloved member of our close knit kiruv community, R' Dovid Winiarz. Traveling to the AJOP Convention early Sunday morning January 18, the car he was in struck a patch of black ice and R' Dovid was tragically killed. Rabbi Raphael Butler delivered a moving memorial to R' Dovid on Monday at the AJOP Convention which can be accessed by clicking the link below. Yehi Zichro Baruch.

Click Here for the AJOP Memorial for R' Dovid

Sign Up for Shabbos Table Talk L'Iluy Nishmas R' Dovid

How to Process Sudden Death by Rav Moshe Meir Weiss

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

Cincinnati, OH

Rabbi Simcha Scholar

Brooklyn, NY

Rabbi Dovid Refson

Jerusalem, Israel

Mr Gary Torgow

Detroit, MI

Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD

Teaneck, NJ

*Deceased

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Start Birthright with Younger Teens

An Article from The Forward

Taglit-Birthright Israel is a truly remarkable invention of contemporary Jewry. Continue Reading

Where are All the Non-Orthodox Rabbis?

An Article from The Forward

Lev Meirowitz Nelson grew up at a Conservative Jewish day school and a Conservative synagogue. Continue Reading

Ivanka Trump and Husband Jared Kushner Tout Benefits of Shabbat Observance

An Article from The Algemeiner

Renowned businesswoman and heiress Ivanka Trump and her husband, real estate mogul Jared Kushner, praised the benefits of observing Shabbat in the March issue of Vogue magazine. Continue Reading

Congregat ional Evolution

An Article from The Baltimore Jewish Times

Temple Emanuel of Baltimore moved into a brand new building in Reisterstown in 1995. Continue Reading

Jewish Backed Catholic School Celebrates First College Grads

An Article from The Baltimore Jewish Times

Four years ago, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School graduated its first class of students. Continue Reading

Companies Failing to Develop Millenial Leaders An Article from eJewish Philanthropy Demographic changes are quickly transforming the U.S. labor force. Continue Reading Modern Orthodoxy Has Its Costs-Not Just Financial An Article from The Jewish Week American Modern Orthodoxy is an elitist phenomenon. Continue Reading

Krauthammer: Where is the President in a Time of Crisis?

An Article from The Washington Post

His secretary of defense says, "The world is exploding all over." His attorney general says that the threat of terror "keeps me up at night." The world bears them out. Continue Reading

Raging Rudy Guiliani Countering Islamic Fundamentalism
A Video from Iranian-American Community of Arizona

At times screaming with rage, Rudy Giuliani excoriates Barack Obama for his weak and feckless policies toward the global threats of radical Islam and a nuclear-armed Iran. Continue Reading

Muslim Leader Who Called Israel a 'Suspect' After 9/11 Meets with Biden at White House

An Article from The Free Beacon

A controversial U.S. Muslim leader who has been highly critical of Israel and said the Jewish state should be on the "suspect list" in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks participated on Tuesday in a White House summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that featured Vice President Joe Biden. Continue Reading

On Relevance, Survival
An Article from the Baltimore Jewish Times

n 2010, demographers working for The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore concluded that this area accounted for 93,400 Jewish persons, a 2 percent increase from the decade before, according to a similar communitywide study done in 1999. Continue Reading

Widen the Israel Discussion on Campus

An Article from The Jewish Week

In recent years, the Jewish community has become increasingly concerned with how Israel is perceived on American college campuses.

Massive Trove of Ancient Gold Coins Found Off Coast

An Article from The Times of Israel

The largest gold treasure ever found in Israel was discovered by chance off the shore of the ancient port city of Caesarea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday. Continue Reading

Video: What Happens When an Orthodox Man Wanders through Paris
An Article from JTA

We have all heard about the rising levels of anti-Semitism in Europe. But not all of us get to actually see it.

Dozens of Graves Defaced in Northern France

An Article from Ynet News

Dozens of graves have been defaced in a cemetery in northern France, the French interior minister said Tuesday, just days after the vandalism of hundreds of Jewish tombs sparked outrage across the country.

Norwegian Muslims Volunteer to Protect Synagogue

An Article from The Times of Israel

In the wake of a deadly shooting attack at a synagogue in Denmark last week, a group of Norwegian Muslims intends to hold an anti- violence demonstration at an Oslo synagogue this coming weekend by forming a "peace ring" around the building. Continue Reading

Iran to US: We'll Do Whatever We Want

An Article from The Times of Israel

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday said the Islamic republic was speeding up its nuclear program, adding that Tehran doesn't ask for permission from any other country to pursue technological advancement. Continue Reading

'I Wish I Didn't Have a Bat Mitzvah and Dan was Alive'

An Article from The Times of Israel

Emissary in Exile

An Article from The Jewish Week

When Chani Gopin and her husband moved to Lugansk 15 years ago to open a Chabad center in the small Eastern Ukrainian city, she thought it would be hard. Continue Reading

Swedish Public Radio Asks: Are Jews Responsible for Antisemitism

An Article from Tablet

There have been many reactions to the recent deadly violence against Jews in European capitals, from Paris to Copenhagen. Continue Reading

7 Axioms of the Copenhagen Terror Attacks

An Article from The Forward

The news of the attacks on the Copenhagen cafe and synagogue did not surprise us. Continue Reading

When Grandpa Was a Nazi

An Article from JTA

What do you do if you find out your grandfather was a Nazi officer? Continue Reading

Western Leaders are Impotent in the Face of Terror

An Article from Ynet News

It was only about five weeks ago, following the murders in the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and in the kosher supermarket in Paris, that millions of people took to the streets for a protest march. Continue Reading

Opinion: Why We Need to Redefine Orthodoxy
An Article from The Jewish Week

Never let the competition define you. Never peg your own identity to a rival. Never allow the other side to dictate your character and never abdicate your own individuality and uniqueness. Continue Reading

When Modern Medicine Fails, an Old Folktale Offers Comfort

An Article from Tablet

My father has been having trouble breathing in the last few years. "I feel OK," he told me a few weeks ago, "but it's hard for me to move a step or two without losing my breath." Continue Reading

Beware the Holocaust-Themed Selfie
An Article from JTA

A few weeks ago, during a Holocaust commemoration ceremony at the former Czech concentration camp Terezin, a Czech politician was caught taking a selfie on live television. Continue Reading

Who Speaks for the Jews?
An Article from The Forward

Who speaks for the Jews? Knowing how diverse and sometimes fractious Jews can be, you'd think that would be a complicated question to answer.

'No One Stuck Up for Us'

An Article from The Baltimore Jewish Times

Nat and her husband have always talked about moving to Israel, but the time never seemed right. Continue Reading

What's So Wrong With Cameron Diaz's Jewish Wedding

An Article from The Forward

When word got out in January about non-Jewish actress Cameron Diaz and non-Jewish musician Benji Madden's Jewish-inspired wedding, some of us found it cause for celebration; others saw it as an insult.

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