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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

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
GoldsteinWatch! Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein's Presentation on "May the Force of Shabbos Awaken!" at AJOP 2016

AJOP had the honor and privilege to host Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein of South Africa at the AJOP Convention on January 31-February 2, 2016. Rabbi Goldstein innovated the international Shabbos Project to raise awareness to the beauty and halachic nuances of shabbos. It has been highly successful worldwide and is gaining momentum with each passing year.

Click Here to see Rabbi Goldstein present along with HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky and Rabbi Rafael Butler.

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Outreach1A Day in the Life of Kiruv: An Insider Look
An Article from The Yeshiva World

6:00 am I hear the dog barking well before my alarm clock. Continue Reading

Outreach2At Utah's On-Slope Shabbat Service, Ski Boots Required
An Article from JTA

It may be the most elevated Shabbat service in the country, and not just because of the spirited singing. Continue Reading
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Yesterday, at 1 PM EST, 25 pioneering Jewish outreach organizations from across the globe have finished what is the largest-ever online Jewish giving day #Givingforoutreach. Continue Reading

FundraisingTwoAn Effective Fundraising Follow Up Strategy
An Article from Ner Le'Elef

As the head of a nonprofit organization, you know how difficult it is to get an appointment with a donor. 
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Fundraising5Jewish Billionaire David Rubinstein Donates $18.5M to Repair Lincoln Memorial
An Article from JTA

Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein has donated $18.5 million to repair and restore the Lincoln Memorial. Continue Reading



NAmericaNorth America
An Article from Front Page Mag
 
Citing a large and disturbing rise in anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses, the David Horowitz Freedom Center today announced that it is launching a new campaign to counter Jew Hatred at the nation's colleges and universities. Continue Reading

Kissinger2House Foreign Affairs Chair Says Iran Becoming Dominant Nation in Middle East
An Article from JP Updates

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said on Thursday that the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions is making Iran the dominant country in the Middle East. Continue Reading
  
After successfully working with the Obama administration on changes to the country's visa program, Congressional leaders are furious that the White House appears to be unraveling that law by significantly expanding exemptions to the program. Continue Reading

Namart5Obama Reluctantly Signs Bill That Lumps Together Israel & Settlements
An Article from The Times of Israel
 
The White House announced Thursday that President Barack Obama will sign a trade bill despite it containing a provision that lumps together Israel and "Israeli-controlled territories." Continue Reading
An Article from The Jewish Week

Emboldened by recent campaigns to get Columbia University to divest from the private prison industry and from fossil fuels, a coalition of university students is spearheading a new campaign to divest from Israel.
Continue Reading

An Article from The Times of Israel

s presidential primary election results stormed in from icy New Hampshire on Tuesday, my thoughts drifted back to a similarly wintry evening 35 years ago. Continue Reading

An Article from The Jewish Week

An Orthodox man was stabbed on a sidewalk in the Brooklyn neighborhood that is home to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's world headquarters.  Continue Reading
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IsraelIsrael
An Article from Fathom

In a post-Iraq war America, the foreign policy debate is between 'nationalists' and 'internationalists'. Continue Reading

israel2UN Rights Observer Charges Israel with Excessive Force Against Palestinians
An Article from The Times of Israel

The UN's human rights rapporteur in the Palestinian territories accused Israeli security forces of using excessive force against Palestinians, and called on Israel to investigate and prosecute perpetrators, Reuters reported.
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Article from The Times of Israel
 
Forty-five years ago in New York, a 20-something Malcolm Hoenlein had a remarkable meeting with Israeli deputy prime minister Yigal Alon, who chose Hoenlein, already a proven leader, to deliver a message to American Jewry.  Continue Reading

Israel4$100 Million to Fight Israeli Brain Drain
An Article from The Jewish Week

To curb the Israeli academic "brain drain", philanthropist Mortimer Zuckerman has committed more than $100 million to attract postdoctoral researchers from Western countries to Israeli universities and lure Israeli academics back. Continue Reading

israel6Israeli Mikvahs Must Allow Non-Orthodox Conversions, Supreme Court Rules
An Article from JTA

In a landmark decision, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that mikvahs in the country must open up to non-Orthodox conversion rites. Continue Reading
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Internationalinternational
An Article from The Washington Poat 
 
Across the olive groves and wheat fields of the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, a battle with global dimensions risks erupting into a wider war. Continue Reading 
 
An Article from The Towers
 
Israel's energy minister said Saturday that the Egyptian military had flooded several smuggling tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip's southern border at Israel's request. Continue Reading
 
 
An extraordinary new crisis is beginning to unfold in Syria, a country that already has suffered through some of the worst war crimes, humanitarian depredations and refu­gee flows in recent history. Continue Reading

International3French Jews Live Under Army Protection
An Article from Israel i24 News

Lucien de Hirsch, a Jewish school located on the 19th arrondissement of Paris, looks like a fortress. Continue Reading

International4Polish Professor Could Lose Prestigious Honor for Asserting Poles' Complicity in the Holocaust
An Article from The Times of Israel

Warsaw's nationalist government has moved to strip a leading Jewish Holocaust scholar of national honor for asserting Poland was in part responsible for Nazi war crimes against its Jewish population during World War II. Continue Reading

International6Russia and Saudi Arabia on Course to Collision in Syria
An Article from The Times of Israel

Russia does not stop. Reports in Arabic media on Saturday evening told the story of a stream of thousands of refugees that won't subside, all fleeing the northwestern areas of Syria toward the Turkish border. Continue Reading

 
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When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia - likely one of the most influential justices to ever sit on the Court - was found dead at the age of 79, the news sent shockwaves through the country. Continue Reading 
 
It just never stops. How many times while writing this article will I be interrupted by a text, a call or an email? Continue Reading 
 
interest2Film Reconnects Holocaust Survivors to Their First Moments of Freedom
An Article from The Bridge

In 1945, more than 30,000 German concentration camp survivors arrived by boat to Malmo, Sweden. There, news photographers filmed their tentative re-entry to a life of freedom. Continue Reading

Interest3Remembering Justice Scalia: In Pursuit of Justice
An Article from The Jewish Week

On a day when he was perhaps the most talked about politically conservative figure in America, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thoroughly charmed and challenged an audience at JTS with his bold legal views calling for more religion in American society. Continue Reading

Interest4Rabbi Ejected from Arizona Council Meeting After Protesting Invocation
An Article from JTA

A rabbi was removed from a city council meeting in Arizona after protesting a Christian invocation read by the mayor. Continue Reading

Interest7The Supreme Court's Jewish Gentile: My Memories of Justice Scalia
An Article from JTA

"When there was no Jewish justice on the Supreme Court," Antonin "Nino" Scalia told me, "I considered myself the Jewish justice." Continue Reading

Interest8Looking for a Quickie Jewish Wedding in Las Vegas? Call Rabbi Mel Hecht
An Article from JTA

Rabbi Mel Hecht clutches his black coffee and paces in front of the Dunkin' Donuts just down the road from the Red Rock Casino. Continue Reading
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