National Jewish Outreach Program
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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."
