October 22, 2015 - 9 Cheshvan 5776

OUTREACH

What Is the Synagogue Hired To Do?

Op-Ed: On Conservative Judaism, Why All the Talk About Failure?

No Handshake: Don't Take It Personally

Henny Machlis: A Truly Great Jewish Woman

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Where Are Tomorrow's Leaders?

NORTH AMERICA

Kissinger: Obama Has Lost the Middle East

The Myths of the US-Israel Relationship
Ted Cruz Demands Kerry Resign Over Israel Criticism

US Jewish Movements Come Together in Support of Israel

Jewish Frat AEPi Issues Antisemitism Security Warning

College Students 1,000 Strong Join In Call of Support for Israel

ISRAEL

Israelis Invest in Firepower as Knife Attacks Rise
Why Is It That Team Obama Always Blames the Victim for Violence in Israel?
Why Kerry Keeps Blaming Israel
Israel's Galilee to Become Global Food-Tech Powerhouse
The Jerusalem Street at the Epicenter of the Violence
The Solution to Israel's Wave of Terror

INTERNATIONAL

Muslim World Reacts to Obama's Latest Speech

Dutch Jews Express 'Grave Concern' Over Refugee Center in Heavily Jewish Town

Why Syrian Refugees Think About Israel Might Surprise You

US Religious Freedom Report: Antisemitism 'Major Problem' Around Globe

Netanyahu's 44 Seconds of Silence at the UN

Buried Treasure in Tokyo

What the Demography of British Jews Tells Us About the Future of the Community

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

New Trend for US Modern Orthodox Congregations is to Hire Interim Rabbis

JTS Becomes Largest Seminary to Offer Staff Fully Paid Parental Leave

Over Dues
I Thought I Had More Time

To View Our Archives of Past Newsletters

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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What Job Is the Synagogue Hired To Do?
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Innovator's Dilemma, was given the following consulting assignment by a fast-food chain: Continue Reading

Op-Ed: On Conservative Judaism, Why All the Talk About Failure
An Article from JTA

"In the United States, 'Conservative Judaism' is a synonym for failure." So writes the Israeli journalist Yair Ettinger after interviewing a spectrum of American Jewish religious leaders. Continue Reading

No Handshake: Don't Take It Personally
An Article from The Jewish Week

Very observant men might decline to have contact with women at "that time of the month," because blood is a source of ritual impurity.

Henny Machlis: A Truly Great Jewish Woman
An Article from Aish.com

What qualified Henny Machlis, who passed away this past Friday at the age of 58, as one of the world's greatest Jewish women? Continue Reading

Where Are Tomorrow's Leaders? An Article from The Jewish Week Major philanthropic foundations play a central role in American Jewish life today, but it wasn't always so. Continue Reading

Kissinger: Obama Has Lost the Middle East

An Article from The Wall Street Journal

The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East's strategic framework had barely begun when the region's geopolitical framework collapsed.
Continue Reading

The Myths of the US-Israel Relationship
An Article from Washington Free Beacon

It would be hard to find someone whose background better suited him to write about the U.S.-Israel relationship than Dennis Ross.
Continue Reading

Ted Cruz Demands Kerry Resign Over Israel Criticism
An Article from The Washington Free Beacon

I interviewed Bernie Sanders a couple years ago, when word first circulated that the Vermont senator might seek the presidency. Continue Reading

US Jewish Movements Come Together in Support of Israel

An Article from The Times of Israel

After a year increasingly dominated by bitter internal Jewish disputes over the Iran nuclear agreement, all of the major American Jewish synagogue movements will come together in common cause this weekend to observe what they describe as a "Special Sabbath of Solidarity" with Israel. Continue Reading

Jewish Frat AEPi Issues Antisemitism Security Warning
An Article from JTA

The Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi issued a warning about "rising anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity" to its 185 chapters on U.S. college campuses. Continue Reading

College Students 1,000 Strong Join In Call of Support for Israel
An Article from Chabad.org

With just two weeks before the annual Chabad on Campus International Shabbaton in New York City, college students have turned to their Chabad Houses to demonstrate their concern for Israel after a week of violence and terror attacks there. Continue Reading

Israelis Invest in Firepower as Knife Attacks Rise

An Article from Yahoo News

Cars are double- and even triple-parked outside a gun shop in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv. Inside, customers jostle each other as they wait to be served. Continue Reading

Why Is It That Team Obama Always Blames the Victim for Violence in Israel?
An Article from Fox News

Midway through a report on recent Arab attacks that killed seven Israeli civilians, The New York Times quoted a Palestinian spokesman warning that Israel's response was the real problem. Continue Reading

Why Kerry Keeps Blaming Israel

An Article from Commentary

There were those who thought the end of the debate on the Iran nuclear deal would lead to a rapprochement between the Obama administration and Israel. Continue Reading

Israel's Galilee to Become Global Food-Tech Powerhouse
An Article from Israel 21C

Israel's leading role in medical-device, biotechnology and agricultural innovation is now expanding to the emerging science of functional foods. Continue Reading

The Jerusalem Street at the Epicenter of the Violence
An Article from The Forward

Like so many places in this divided city, the street where several recent terrorist stabbings have taken place in Jerusalem's Old City goes by two names. Continue Reading

The Solution to Israel's Wave of Terror
An Article from Aish

As the wave of terror continues throughout Israel, with multiple attacks every day by Arabs using knives, guns, and cars to kill Jews, the Jewish population is protesting, demanding that our government do more to protect its citizens. Continue Reading

Muslim World Reacts to Obama's Latest Speech

An Article from Associated Press

Memri Arab TV reporter reacts to Obama's statement at climate change is America's number one security threat. Continue Reading

Dutch Jews Express 'Grave Concern' over Refugee Center in Heavily Jewish Town

An Article from JTA

The main organization representing Dutch Jews expressed "grave concern" over the housing of Syrians and Iraqis at a refugee center in a heavily Jewish suburb of Amsterdam. Continue Reading

Why Syria's Refugees Think About Israel Might Surprise You
An Article from JTA

Israel's government is in cahoots with Syrian President Bashar Assad. America wants to keep the Syrian civil war going for as long as possible. Continue Reading

US Religious Freedom Report: Antisemitism 'Major Problem' Around Globe
An Article from JTA

Anti-Semitism "continued to be a major problem around the globe," the U.S. State Department's annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2014 found. Continue Reading

Netanyahu's 44 Seconds of Silence at the UN
An Article from Aish.com

As I watched the proceedings at the United Nations last week I couldn't help but remember the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and my father - and, most important of all, the lesson my father taught me I needed to learn from that historic moment. Continue Reading

Buried Treasure in Tokyo
An Article from Hamodia

At a news conference last week, Satoshi Omura, a Japanese researcher and one of three scientists who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, made a comment that was not only modest but, properly considered, profound. Continue Reading

What the Demography of British Jews Tells Us About the Future of the Community
An Article from Jewish Policy Research

The British Jewish population is on the verge of significant demographic change. Continue Reading

New Trend for US Modern Orthodox Congregations is to Hire Interim Rabbis
An Article from The Jewish Week

In May 1984, the congregation at Kesher Israel, the capital's tony Georgetown Synagogue, suddenly found itself with a rabbinic opening when the congregation's longtime spiritual leader, Rabbi Philip Rabinowitz, was found murdered in his home. Continue Reading

JTS Becomes Largest Seminary to Offer Staff Fully Paid Parental Leave

An Article from JTA

The Jewish Theological Seminary will offer its employees up to eight weeks of fully paid parental leave. Continue Reading

Over Dues
An Article from Tablet

It was 2006, and Temple Israel of Sharon, like so many congregations across the country, was shrinking. Continue Reading

I Thought I Had More Time
An Article from Aish.com

One of the rabbis who spoke at synagogue this Rosh Hashanah (Okay, it was my husband!) made a powerful but simple point, a point that continues to resonate with me weeks later. Continue Reading

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