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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



JobfairMark Your Calendar! Kiruv Job Fair May 4, 2016
 
For the first time, an opportunity will be given for young men and women who are interested to join the ranks of full time kiruv positions, to meet with employers and kiruv headhunters throughout North America who are looking to fill as many as 90 available positions. The Kiruv Job Fair will take place on May 4, 2016 in Brooklyn, NY from 2-5pm. Interested employers or candidates can email their job descriptions or resumes respectively to kiruvjobs@gmail.com



outreachOutreach
An Article from Ner Le'Elef

One day the Chazon Ish (Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, November 7, 1878 - October24, 1953) arrived in a town for a short visit. Continue Reading 
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PhilanthropyFundraisingPhilanthropy
So you just received a meaningful donation from a donor. What should you give the donor that makes him feel valued so he wants to give again and again? Continue Reading
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NAmericaNorth America
An Article from The Jewish Week
 
As the New York primary for both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls looms April 19, the battle for Jewish votes is revealing - and likely exacerbating - sharp communal fault lines over Jewish values, Israel and demographics.  Continue Reading

Kissinger2U. Denver's Nader Hashemi Shills for Muslim Brotherhood's 'Muslim Democracy'
An Article from Front Page Mag

"I can't have a serious conversation with you about the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and violence because" this author's question "is driven by a certain ideological agenda," declared University of Denver Middle East studies professor Nader Hashemi. Continue Reading
  
Bernie Sanders is the first Jewish candidate to run for a national office on a major party ticket since Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was selected in 2000 by Al Gore to be his vice presidential running mate. Continue Reading

Namart5US Court to Hear PA Appeal Against $656 M. Terror Judgment
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The Second Circuit US federal appeals court on Tuesday is due to hear the Palestinian Authority's appeal against a historic $655.5 million civil wrongful death judgment against it for involvement in six terror attacks during the Second Intafada. Continue Reading

Namart6A Month After AIPAC Talk, Joe Biden to Address J Street
An Article from JTA

Vice President Joe Biden will address J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group announced Monday. Continue Reading

Namart9Fearing Trump, Republican Jews Take Another Look at Cruz
An Article from The Times of Israel

Ted Cruz came here to woo Republican Jews over the weekend, and in the absence of his opponents for the GOP presidential nomination came away with qualified support based not on who he is but who he is not - Donald Trump. Continue Reading

Namart10Sheldon Adelson and Top GOP Donors Retreat to the Sidelines
An Article from Politico

Dispirited over a Republican Party primary that has devolved into an ugly, damaging fight, some of the GOP's biggest financiers are reevaluating whether to invest in the 2016 presidential contest at all. Continue Reading

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Israel1Religious Pluralism in Israel?              
An Article from The Jewish Week

While no one would call Israel a religiously pluralistic country, with its Orthodox control of the Chief Rabbinate, momentum in that direction seems to be building. Continue Reading 

israel2900 Year Old Passover Haggadah Fragments Go on Display in Jerusalem
An Article from JNS

Remnants of one of the oldest surviving Passover haggadahs in the world, which was discovered in the trove of archived Jewish texts known as the Cairo Genizah, are currently on display as part of an exhibit at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Continue Reading
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Sixty percent of Israeli Jews support the work of American Jewish coalitions whose goal is to advance civil marriage in Israel, according to a new poll. Continue Reading

Israel4Bernie Sanders Five Most Ignorant Anti-Israel Statements
An Article from Breitbart

Here are Sanders's top 5 most ignorant statements about Israel, in no particular order. Continue Reading

israel5IDF Said to Be Eyeing Purchase of 'Suicide Drones'
An Article from Israel Hayom

The Israel Defense Forces is interested in purchasing "suicide drones," an Israel Aerospace Industries official said on Sunday.   Continue Reading

israel6US Undecided on Veto of UNSC Resolution Against West Bank Settlements
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

On Friday, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters in Washington: "We understand there is an early draft that the Palestinians have shared informally in New York." Continue Reading

Israel7Poll: 60% of Palestinians Support "Armed Attacks Against Israeli Civilians Inside Israel"
An Article from The Tower

A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza approve of attacks against Israeli civilians and believe that an armed intifada would help them on the path to statehood, a recent poll has found. Continue Reading

 
With the Obama administration in its final year, several officials have said that the president has grown so frustrated with trying to revive Middle East peace talks that he may lay down his own outline for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state peace agreement, in the form of a resolution in the United Nations Security Council. Continue Reading

Just 3% of Israelis See Kotel Fight as 'Most Important'-Most Back Civil Marriage
An Article from The Forward

Sixty percent of Israeli Jews support the work of American Jewish coalitions whose goal is to advance civil marriage in Israel, according to a new poll.
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An Article from The Times of Israel
 
The number of people linked to the Islamic State network that attacked Paris and Brussels reaches easily into the dozens, with a series of new arrests over the weekend that confirmed the cell's toxic reach and ability to move around unnoticed in Europe's criminal underworld.
 
Article from The Washington Post
 
Lise Ramslog was out for a barefoot amble on the warm day last September that Europe's refugee crisis came to her remote village in southern Denmark. Continue Reading

An Article from Arutz 7

More than one out of every three Muslims in the UK believe that "Jews have too much power," a new survey has found.  Continue Reading
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An Article from The Forward 
 
Given the vitriolic speech surrounding the current presidential campaign, the "Anti-Semitism 1919-1939" exhibit at The New York Historical Society that opened April 11, seems ominously well timed. Continue Reading
 
An Article from The Tower
 
Oberlin College's announcement last week of a new interim vice president and dean of students has attracted further controversy as the school works to address what some community members describe as a hostile campus environment towards Jewish students and freedom of inquiry and expression. Continue Reading

as4San Francisco State U to Launch Investigation After Jewish Groups Denounce Shout Down of Jerusalem Mayor's Speech
 An Article from The Algemeiner

The president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) announced on Thursday that the university would launch a "full investigation" into the disruption by anti-Israel protesters of Wednesday's campus lecture by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. Continue Reading
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Interest1Rav Chaim Yosef Goldberg zt'l
An Article from The Yated
  
The legendary gabbai tzedokah of Yerushalayim, Rav Chaim Goldberg zt"l, was niftar Thursday morning, 21 Adar, in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. He was 67.
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How was Helene and Bob Fine's family seder in 2000 different from every other Passover night?Continue Reading
 
interest2Jewish Clergy, Christian Setting
An Article from The Jewish Week

A first-year rabbinical student from Providence, R.I., who works for a new Jewish research institute, Lex Rofes says he has informally learned some basics of Christian thought from Christian clergy he has met in recent years. Continue Reading

Interest3Super Small Diode Could Herald iPhones a Million Times More Powerful
An Article from The Times of Israel

The iPhones and Android devices of a decade or two from now could be a million times more powerful than the ones on the market, thanks to research being done at Ben-Gurion University, in conjunction with the University of Georgia. Continue Reading

Interest4Was Shakespeare Actually a Venetian Jewish Woman?
An Article from Israel i24 News

William Shakespeare was actually a Venetian Jewish woman who lived in London and spoke Hebrew, a new book by John Hudson entitled Shakespeare's Dark Lady claims. Continue Reading
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