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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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Outreach1Insights and Strategies for Engaging Millennials
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

The research focused on young adults aged 22-36, who self-identified as Jewish, lived in New York city, completed college and did not yet have children. Continue Reading

Outreach2Is It Really Possible to Grow Jewish Day School Enrollment?
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

PEJE believes that day schools are essential for fostering an engaged Jewish
people for an enduring Jewish future. Continue Reading
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PhilanthropyFundraisingPhilanthropy
An Article from The Jewish Week
 
As Jewish organizations plan for a fast-changing communal landscape, many are trying to figure out ways to engage the most coveted demographic cohort: the millennial generation.  Continue Reading

FundraisingTwoFundraising is About More Than Money
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

According to the report, "Times have changed. Ten years ago, it might have seemed strangely out of character for a development director to say that fundraising is "everyone's job" or to insist on sharing credit for bringing in large gifts. Continue Reading
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NAmericaNorth America
An Article from UCL
 
Religion in the United States is declining and mirroring patterns found across the western world, according to new research from UCL and Duke University in the United States. Continue Reading

Kissinger2How David Duke's (Very Live) Ghost Haunts Donald Trump
An Article from Politico

On a moonlit night 39 years ago outside of San Diego, three sedans sped along back roads to pass on claims of illegal alien sightings to federal border agents. Continue Reading
  
Namart4Jews for Trump, Kind Of, Maybe
An Article from The Jewish Week

In a campaign stained by insults and innuendo, has anyone been more smeared than conservative Republicans supporting Donald Trump?
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Namart5These May Be America's Proudest Shabbos Goys
An Article from JTA
 
For Samir Patel, the term "goy" is no slur. It's a point of pride. Patel is a manager of Suhag Wine & Liquors, a family-owned business in the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Kew Gardens Hills, in Queens. Continue Reading
An Article from JTA

Donald Trump maintained that he would be a neutral broker of Israeli-Palestinian peace, parrying tough criticism from his rivals in the latest Republican debate by noting his love for Israel and his daughter Ivanka Trump's Jewish family.  Continue Reading

An Article from Tablet

The story of Leo Frank is a tale of murder, titillation, anti-Semitism, racism, tensions between the North and South, secrets and lies. Continue Reading
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IsraelIsrael
An Article from The Jewish Week

Holocaust survivors, Palestinians, ultra-Orthodox settlers and Israeli-Palestinian gay lovers: these were just some of the voices featured in the Valentine's-themed live recording of "Israel Story." 

israel2Most Elite IDF Unit Combines Brains and Brawn to Keep Israel One Generation Ahead of Its Enemies
An Article from The Algemeiner

The fact that one of the most elite units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is little known and even less talked-about spurred an American journalist who covered the Second Lebanon War in 2006 to write a book about it.
Continue Reading
An Article from JTA
 
A bill that would bar Conservative and Reform conversions from taking place at public ritual baths in Israel passed an initial Cabinet committee vote, but only three of the committee's 12 members were on hand for the vote.  
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Israel4Major Pew Survey Charts 'Two Planes of Existence'
An Article from The Jewish Week

To say that deep fissures cut through Israeli society is a little like saying the San Andreas Fault is a hairline fracture. Continue Reading
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Internationalinternational
An Article from i24 News 
 
Over half a millennium may have passed, but regions that did not expel Jews during the Renaissance era have measurably better economies than those that did. Continue Reading 
 
Article from The Jewish Week
 
One of the proudest buildings in Wrocław, a European Capital of Culture for 2016, is the White Stork Synagogue. Continue Reading
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An Article from The Jewish Week
 
Two and a half weeks after a group of students chanting slogans including "Zionists off campus" broke up a Brooklyn College faculty council meeting, City University of New York Chancellor James B. Milliken announced the school had hired outside attorneys to investigate complaints that a student group is causing Jews to feel harassed and physically unsafe. Continue Reading 
 
An Article from JTA
 
Jewish communities must not be left to fend for themselves against anti-Semitism, Jewish leaders and politicians said at the third major interparliamentary conference on anti-Semitism.  Continue Reading
 
as3How to be a Jew in France
An Article from Tablet
 
The Marais neighborhood in Paris's 4th arrondissement has long been known as the Jewish quarter, though it is also popular with the gay community-most Jewish shops and businesses close for Sabbath.  Continue Reading

An Article from The Forward
As a high school teacher in suburban Chicago, I have written many recommendation letters for students who hoped to attend Oberlin College, and several of my wonderful young students have attended and graduated from Oberlin. Continue Reading
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Famed actor Dustin Hoffman was reduced to tears on Tuesday after learning that his great-grandmother had escaped a Soviet concentration camp before starting a life for herself in America, People magazine reported.
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An Article from Aish.com 
 
I have to go to a shiva house and I don't know what to say to the mourners when I'm there. Continue Reading 
 
interest2Bob Dylan's Jewish Odyssey
An Article from Aish.com

Unlike the film or comic book industries, pop music has never been particularly Jewish. Continue Reading 
 
Interest3Millennial White Paper  
An Article from American Advertising Federation
 
Issues concerning millennials are a major source of popular concern.  
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On a recent Sunday evening at a Jewish center in Brooklyn's Midwood section, dozens of boys and men - ages 5 to 40-something - practice their kicks, strikes and jabs. Continue Reading
 
Interest7Remembering the Erlauer Rebbe
An Article from Tablet

In 1999, I searched the old Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem for an apartment to buy with my wife, Chaya. Continue Reading
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