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03/27/2026

Join Florence Wiener, NJOP Hebrew Reading Specialist, this coming Monday, March 30 at 12:30 PM ET for a special Passover-focused Hebrew reading class entitled “Making the Haggadah Come Alive: Increase Your Ability to Read and Sing the Hebrew Text of the Haggadah.”

This class will take place over Zoom so you can join in from anywhere!

New Pre-Passover Classes on Zoom Join NJOP for two exciting classes on Zoom to help prepare you for Passover! Forward to a friend Monday, March 30th, 12:30 PM (EDT) Making the Haggadah Come Alive with Florence Wiener Join Florence Wiener, Hebrew Reading Specialist, for a special Passover-focused Heb...

03/25/2026

Interested in joining a communal seder this year?

Visit the link below to see if there is a Passover Across America Community Seder taking place near you.

NJOP’s annual Passover Across America is a no-knowledge-of-Hebrew-necessary seder hosted in synagogues and Hillels around the country, designed for those who want to learn more about the meaning behind the Passover seder. The NJOP sponsored seders include explanations of the seder rituals and trad...

03/23/2026

03/13/2026

Shabbat Across America Shalom!

Tonight we have 160 synagogues and Jewish centers across North America taking part in our annual campaign, with plans to welcome men, women and children from their local communities and showing them a Shabbat experience to remember.

02/12/2026

Shabbat Across America and Canada is just four weeks from tomorrow, on March 13th!

Will your community be taking part? Call your local synagogue and find out. Tell them to visit https://njop.org/saa if they want to participate!

The 30th Annual Shabbat Across America and Canada is March 13, 2026! Click Here to Register Your Synagogue/Jewish Center Shabbat Across Canada For those of you north of the border, Canadian synagogues will be taking part in our Shabbat Across Canada initiative. We hope you can join us! “Turn an or...

01/21/2026

Join NJOP Director Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald for his acclaimed Introduction to Bible lecture series and experience an in-depth study and analysis of the Ten Commandments and other basic Biblical texts.

His Spring 2026 class begins Tuesday night, February 3rd at Lincoln Square Synagogue.

To learn more or register, visit:

An in-depth study and analysis of the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments) and other basic Biblical texts. The religious significance of the Bible, scriptural exegesis and the relationship of the written and oral law will be discussed and analyzed. (Texts will be studied in English.)

12/31/2025

Make a year end gift to NJOP today and your donation will be doubled! A generous donor has offered to match all NJOP gifts (up to $100,000 total) before the New Year. Please consider donating to our worthy cause.

Email from NJOP Double your gift!! An anonymous donor has offered to match all gifts (up to $100,000 total) donated between now and the end of the year!! There is no better time than now to support th

12/12/2025

This past week marked 50 years of the Lincoln Square Synagogue Beginners Service. That very first service took place on December 6, 1975.

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald wrote this piece for The Jewish Press about the origins of that service and how, 12 years later, it compelled him to create the National Jewish Outreach Program.

As we look back over the past 50 years, we feel enriched that the Almighty has given us this opportunity to provide something that has proven to be so successful and so influential.

11/27/2025

"Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion."

Happy Thanksgiving from NJOP!

10/10/2025

NJOP is sponsoring 70 Sukkot Across America events across North America this week!

Click here to find out if a Sukkot Across America event will be taking place in your community this year.

- Sukkot The holiday of Sukkot, known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, or the liturgy Zman Simchatainu, the time of our rejoicing. Sukkot begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on Happy Sukkot! The first month of the Jewish year (Tishrei) is also the busiest month of the Jewish year. Immediately...

10/06/2025

Prepare for the joyous holiday of Sukkot with this special YouTube playlist from Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald explaining key points and enjoyable stories about the festival.

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08/27/2025

Rabbi Buchwald will once again be offering his popular prayer workshops for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot this fall. You can sign up now for all three!

Get ready for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot with three exciting Zoom workshops, led by Rabbi Buchwald!