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discuss issues. AJOP also distributes a weekly e-newsletter, containing reputable sources and publishers who share information such as Torah discourses, Halacha, inspirational stories, and recipes, and runs an online store which sells merchandise tailored for those in the field of
Orthodox Jewish outreach.
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January 16, the Association for Jewish Outreach Programs (AJOP), with which hundreds (yes, hundreds) of Orthodox outreach organizations are affiliated, will begin its annual 5-day convention; it will be the group's sixteenth such annual gathering. Among AJOP's members are a large number of
232:(NCYI) and a third director, Rabbi Shmuel Stauber was appointed. The alliance with the NCYI was brief but was soon followed by the organization's move of its main office outside of New York State by the end of the 1990s.
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Honorary President during the entire lifespan of the organization. AJOP's second director was Rabbi Herschel Leiner. Rabbi Leiner was endorsed personally and publicly by Rabbi
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at one of AJOP's annual conventions. The appointment of Rabbi
Milikowsky as President and Rabbi Leiner as Director was an indication that AJOP was officially moving in a more Haredi direction.
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AJOP was an early pioneer in explaining the uses of computer networks as an outreach tool at its earliest conventions. At all its early annual conventions, beginning in 1989,
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Kaminetzky as its chief rabbinical sponsors. So much so, that one of
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that traditionally had a Baal teshuva student base. As the AVI CHAI Foundation announced that it would wind down funding for AJOP the decision was made to align with the
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Orthodox,
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the leader of Chabad who encouraged many of his followers to leave the confines of
Brooklyn and to set up synagogues and communities in non-Orthodox settings and to "
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and particularly Jewish outreach ("kiruv") if it met the criteria of his foundation (no opposition to
Zionism and to accept the value of secular knowledge.)
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another of AJOP's founding trustees. The project was ahead of times, and it would be another decade before use of the
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