June 18, 2015   -  1 Tamuz 5775 

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OUTREACH

Birthright Names 500,000th Participant, Launches 'Tel Aviv Urban Experience' 

 

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

What Is the Jewish Community Doing to Take Advantage of Record Levels of Generosity? 

If You Forget Them, They Will Not Come 

 

NORTH AMERICA 

That Time the Middle East Exploded-and Nixon Was Drunk 

Obama's Latest Wooing of Jews Not Working, Poll Suggests 

U. of Illinois Censured for Cancelling Professor's Job Over Antisemitic Tweets 

Muslim Hero in Paris Kosher Market Attack Honored in NY 

What's Behind the Mass Layoffs at the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent? 

                

ISRAEL

INTERNATIONAL

Spanish Parliament Approved Law Granting Citizenship to Sephardic Jews 

 Polish Museum Removes Controversial Holocaust Themed Installation 

 Ex-Employee Sues Al Jazeera for Pro-Arab, Anti-Israel Agenda 

Former UK Chief Rabbi Calls for Strong Religious Voice to Combat Extremism 

Germany Probably Still Full of Nazis 

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Will Sephardic Jews Join Ashkenazi Embrace of Pre-Marriage Genetic Testing? 

Less Than 2% of the US Population is Jewish. So Why is 41% of the Country's Packaged Food Kosher? 

What's in an Old Dictionary? Plenty of Antisemitism 

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Jerusalem, Israel

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Los Angeles, CA

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Northbrook, IL

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Lakewood, NJ

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Baltimore, MD

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Passaic, NJ

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Milwaukee, WI 

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Lawrence, NY

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Denver, CO

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Jerusalem, Israel

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Baltimore, MD
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New York, NY

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Baltimore, MD

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Toronto, ONT

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Cincinnati, OH

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Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Dovid Refson
Jerusalem, Israel

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Detroit, MI

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Teaneck, NJ

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 RabbisAJOP Rabbis Conference Attracts Rabbis for 2 Day Uplifting Conference
  
Once again, on May 12-13, the Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals (AJOP) organized and coordinated the AJOP Rabbis Conference for Shul Rabbis in kiruv friendly shuls hosted by Beth Jacob Congregation. Continue Reading 



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Outreach1Birthright Names 500,000th Participants, Launches 'Tel Aviv Urban Experience'  

An Article from JNS


The Taglit-Birthright Israel program, which takes Jews ages 18-26 on free 10-day trips to Israel, on Wednesday named its 500,000th participant.  Continue Reading 

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PhilanthropyFundraisingPhilanthropy
  
Charitable giving to religious organizations has rebounded from the lean years of the Great Recession - and then some. Continue Reading 

FundraisingTwoIf You Forget Them They Will Not Come
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

In my work these past years with Jewish Sacred Aging, one of the themes that keeps being discussed, formally and informally, is the feeling on the part of the over 50 years of age set that the institutional Jewish community has written them off. Continue Reading
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NAmericaNorth America

Namart1That Time the Middle East Exploded-and Nixon Was Drunk  

An Article from Politico Magazine 

 

The Nixon administration began disintegrating-the president unable to play his role as the leader of the nation and the free world-at 7:55 p.m. on October 11, 1973. Continue Reading
  
An Article from The Times of Israel

It's early days for the White House's latest charm offensive among American Jews, but a new poll suggests that the wooing effort is having little effect. Continue Reading
An Article from JTA

A national professors' organization voted to censure the University of Illinois for rescinding a job offer to a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. Continue Reading 

  
Namart5Muslim Hero in Paris Kosher Supermarket Attack Honored in NY
An Article from JTA

The Muslim employee who saved Jewish shoppers during a terrorist attack on a Paris kosher supermarket was honored in New York.
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Namart6What's Behind the Mass Layoffs at the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent?
An Article from The Forward

he abrupt layoff of all editorial staffers at Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent, the second-oldest Jewish newspaper in America, has highlighted the dire situation of local Jewish publications struggling to stay afloat. Namart7
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israel1Meeting PM, Orange CEO Corrects 'Misunderstood' Boycott Comments  

An Article from The Times of Israel

 
The CEO of mobile giant Orange, Stephane Richard, vowed on Friday that Orange "as a company has never supported and will never support any kind of boycott against Israel." Continue Reading
An Article from The Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week urged Gen. Martin Dempsey to boost US aid to Syria's increasingly embattled Druze minority, Haaretz reported Saturday night. Continue Reading
When Stephen Kaufer, the CEO of TripAdvisor, an $11 billion company that runs America's leading user-generated hotel review website, thinks back to all the places he has visited, one stands out as his favorite.    
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israel5Watch What Happens When This Jewish Dance Party Gets Out of Control
A Video from Israel Video Network

Watch a video produced by MIIAD, the Fight to Unite. Continue Reading

israel6Israeli Archeologists Decipher Rare Inscription on a 3,000 Year Old King David Era Jar
An Article from The Blaze

Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed hundreds of ceramic fragments in the Valley of Elah, best known as the site David fought Goliath as described in the biblical book of 1 Samuel. Continue Reading

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Intl1Spanish Parliament Approved Law Granting Citizenship to Sephardic Jews 

An Article from JNS 


Spain's Chamber of Deputies on Thursday approved a law aimed at granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. 

Internatioanl2Polish Museum Removes Controversial Holocaust Themed Installation  

An Article from Israel i24 News


A controversial piece of video art representing naked Jewish inmates playing tag at the Auschwitz death camp was removed by the Polish museum where it was exhibited after sparking outrage. Continue Reading 
 

International3Ex-Employee Sues Al Jazeera for Pro-Arab, Anti-Israel Agenda 

An Article from JTA 

 

A former Al Jazeera executive is suing the company for advancing a "pro-Arabic/Middle Eastern agenda, often at the expense of Jewish people." Continue Reading

International3Former UK Chief Rabbi Calls for Strong Religious Voice to Combat Extremism
An Article from The Algemeiner

The former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth said a uniting, "strong religious voice" was necessary to combat the rampant antisemitism in Europe. Continue Reading

International4Germany Probably Still Full of Nazis
An Article from Gawker

Nazism worked-really, really well, according to a new study. Besides pulling off one of the largest systematic genocides in human history, the Third Reich also had a lifetime impact on Germany's non-Jewish children by schooling them from an early age with anti-Semitic propaganda. Continue Reading 

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Interest1Will Sephardic Jews Join Ashkenazi Embrace of Pre-Marriage Genetic Testing? 

An Article from JNS

  

"There is no person in the world without issues," says Rabbi Yosef Ekstein, the founder of the organization Dor Yeshorim ("Upright Generation" in Hebrew), a confidential genetic screening system used around the world, mostly by Ashkenazi Jews in the Orthodox community. 

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Interestarticle6Less Than 2% of the US Population is Jewish. So Why is 41% of the Country's Packaged Food Kosher?  

An Article from Quartz

 

Considering how few people keep kosher in the US-Jews make up less than 2% of the American population, and only a portion of them follow Jewish dietary laws-it's fairly astounding that more than 40% of the country's new packaged food and beverage products in 2014 are labeled as being kosher. 

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interest2What's In An Old Dictionary? Plenty of Antisemitism
An Article from The Forward

hen I was in my sophomore year of high school, I spent many of my lunch hours eating alone. Continue Reading

Interest3Glassdoor's Highest Rated CEO's 2015 

An Article from Glassdoor 

 

The daily masses take place each morning, led by a priest and drawing more than 50 Catholic sisters.  Continue Reading 

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