January 14, 2016 - 4 Shevat 5776

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CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS

Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein Keynote Address at AJOP Convention

FreshBiz Minute: An Exclusive Video Featuring Simcha Gluck

OUTREACH

Citing Heschel, Hillel International Asks Why We Segregate Youth and Age

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Smartphones Grow to Dominate Mobile Giving, Study Finds

Volunteers Need to benefit From Their Charitable Work

Some Federations Rebounding From The Great Recession

NORTH AMERICA

Revolt of the Politically Incorrect

Peter Beinart, 54 Other Academics Demand Hillel Open Up Israel Dialogue

Is Marco Rubio Really Outraged by US Spying on Israel?

Seven Reconstructionist Rabbis Quit as Synagogues Debate Intermarried Rabbis

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik to Serve on Marco Rubio's Religious Liberty Advisory Board

Jewish Groups Back Obama on Gun Control Initiatives

ISRAEL

Have Liberal Jews Betrayed Israel?
H&M Pulls Tallit-Like Scarf From Israel, Apologizes 'If We Have Offended Anyone'
Spain's High Court Awards Israeli University $100,000 in Discrimination Lawsuit

INTERNATIONAL

Jews 'Stuck in Middle' In a Changing Europe

Dutch Chief Rabbi: Rabbinical Pro-Christian Statement 'Goes Too Far'

'Mein Kampf' No Longer Banned in Germany-Now What?

Anti-Semitic Incidents Explode in France

Vichy Yearns to Shed Heavy Yoke of Past Shame

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Will 2016 Be the Year of the Female Orthodox Rabbi?

Millenials Struggling With Basic Financial Concepts: Study

Survivors Meet Again, Worlds From Sosnowiec

Non-Traditional Synagogue Network Launches, With Fellowship
Why an 1855 Jewish Conference Is Still Worth Conferring About
Yes, Hitler Really Did Take the Guns Before Throwing Jews Into Concentration Camps

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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

Beit Shemesh, 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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Citing Heschel, Hillel International Asks Why We Segregate Youth and Age An Article from The Jewish Week In 1960, American "youth" confounded the nation. This burgeoning class of teens so perplexed that other great class of countrymen, "the adults," that a White House Conference was called, in part, to solve "the problem." Continue Reading
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Smartphones Grow to Dominate Mobile Giving

An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Mobile giving jumped by 45 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to new data from Blackbaud, a processor of online donations. Continue Reading

Volunteers Need to Benefit from Their Charitable Work
An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Many donors are figuring how to use their time and money to make a difference for themselves while making a difference to a nonprofit.
Continue Reading

Some Federations Rebounding From The Great Recession
An Article from The Jewish Week

Here's some good news as we enter 2016. The latest update of the "The Jewish GDP (Gross Domestic Product)" study shows that Jewish federations in the U.S. have finally begun to recover from the Great Recession that began in 2008. Continue Reading

Revolt of the Politically Incorrect

An Article from The Wall Street Journal

Soon we'll all be camped in the fields of primary politics, as that great threshing machine called the American voter methodically separates the contender wheat from the candidate chaff.
Continue Reading

Peter Beinart, 54 Other Academics Demand Hillel Open Up Israel Dialogue
An Article from The Jewish Week

The Open Hillel student group has established a council of 55 academics who support its mission to open up dialogue about Israel at campus Hillels. Continue Reading

Is Marco Rubio Really Outraged by US Spying on Israel?
An Article from JTA

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has made seemingly contradictory statements about the seriousness of reported U.S. spying on Israel. Continue Reading

Seven Reconstructionist Rabbis Quit as Synagogues Debate Intermarried Rabbis
An Article from The Forward

Seven rabbis have quit the Reconstructionist movement and several synagogues are discussing possible responses since the stream announced a controversial new controversial policy allowing rabbis to marry outside the Jewish faith. Continue Reading

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik to Serve on Rubio's Religious Liberty Advisory Board
An Article from Jewish Insider

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Wednesday the formation of Marco Rubio's Religious Liberty Advisory Board to seek guidance from faith leaders across the country who are dedicated to defending it as he seeks the presidency. Continue Reading

Jewish Groups Back Obama on Gun Control Initiatives
An Article from JTA

Jewish groups praised new executive actions by President Barack Obama to reduce gun violence. Continue Reading

Have Liberal Jews Betrayed Israel?

An Article from The Forward

Have liberal American Jews betrayed Israel? It's a searing accusation, aimed like a dagger into the heart of those of us who so often feel caught between our loyalty to a Jewish state of Israel and our liberal, pluralistic, red-white-and-blue DNA. Continue Reading

H&M Pulls Tallit-Like Scarf From Israel, Apologizes 'If We Have Offended Anyone'
An Article from JTA

The Swedish retail chain H&M apologized for marketing a Jewish prayer shawl-like fringed scarf and said the item will no longer be sold in Israel. Continue Reading

Spain's High Court Awards Israeli University $100,000 in Discrimination Lawsuit
An Article from The Tower

Spain's Supreme Court awarded Israel's Ariel University over $100,000 in damages after it was illegally excluded from a scientific competition by Spain's Housing Ministry, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Continue Reading

Jews 'Stuck in the Middle' In a Changing Europe

An Article from The Jewish Week

Charles Asher Small is founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Continue Reading

Dutch Chief Rabbi: Rabbinical Pro-Christian Statement 'Goes Too Far'

An Article from JTA

A prominent European rabbi who is known for his interfaith work criticized a pro-Christian statement by other rabbis, which he said "went too far." Continue Reading

'Mein Kampf' No Longer Banned in Germany-Now What?
An Article from The Forward

Nazi salutes, swastikas and other Third Reich symbols have long been outlawed in Germany. Continue Reading

Anti-Semitic Incidents Explode in France
An Article from The Forward

Anti-Semitic incidents doubled in France in 2014 over the previous year even as other hate crimes decreased, according to a new report.
Continue Reading

Vichy Yearns to Shed Heavy Yoke of Past Shame
An Article from The New York Times

Perhaps this small city could be forgiven for thinking, 70 years after the end of World War II, that it might be thought of as something other than the capital of the collaborationist government of Marshal Philippe P�tain. Continue Reading

Will 2016 Be the Year of the Female Orthodox Rabbi?
An Article from JTA

Forget 2015 - that's so last year. It's time to think about the future. What will the new year bring on issues of concern to Jews? Continue Reading

Millenials Struggling with Basic Financial Concepts: Study

An Article from The Wall Street Journal

A new report from PwC suggests millennials are struggling to grasp basic financial concepts which is impacting their overall financial well-being. Continue Reading

Survivors Meet Again, Worlds From Sosnowiec
An Article from The Jewish Week

Nearly 74 years ago, a pair of young Jewish women left their hometown in southwest Poland, on a transport to a Nazi concentration camp.

Non-Traditional Synagogue Network Launches, With Fellowship
An Article from The Jewish Week

What do a religious start-up, a spiritual cooperative and 570-plus households in a high school have in common? Continue Reading

Why an 1855 Jewish Conference Is Still Worth Conferring About
An Article from The Forward

This past month I've been to more conferences than I care to remember.
Continue Reading

Yes, Hitler Really Did Take the Guns Before Throwing Jews in Concentration Camps
An Article from Info Wars

They say those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it, but then again, sometimes repeating history is exactly the point, as longtime anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein's new "assault weapons ban" planned legislation for early next year proves. Continue Reading

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