National Jewish Outreach Program
The
National Jewish Outreach Program, known as
NJOP, is a
Jewish adult education and outreach organization that was founded in
1987, by Rabbi
Ephraim Buchwald, a leading rabbi at the
Lincoln Square Synagogue New York City.
NJOP's aim is to address the issues of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage. Since its founding, NJOP has become one of the largest and most successful Jewish outreach
kiruv organizations in the world.
NJOP reaches out to unaffiliated Jews by offering them positive, joyous, Jewish educational opportunities and experiences. NJOP currently sponsors free "Crash Courses" in basic
Hebrew reading and classes in basic
Judaism.
It has a "Turn Friday Night Into
Shabbat", and organizes "Beginners Services" at non-denominational synagogues. It undertakes Jewish consciousness raising advertising campaigns.
As of 2003, NJOP programs are presently offered at more than 3,620 locations across
North America, and in 30 countries worldwide. NJOP claims to have "successfully reached close to 730,000 North American Jews and engaged them in Jewish life."
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NJOP official site*
NJOP Shabbat*
NJOP Hebrew
