Agudath Israel of America - Communications

Communications

AIA advocates its position in several ways:

• Mails newsletters of AIA news, Coalition and Inside Track;
• E-Newsletter entitled Weekly Window
• Publishes a general-interest monthly magazine, The Jewish Observer (currently in hiatus);
• Promotes its views as a member (along with other Jewish organizations) of Am Echad ("One Nation");
• Maintains full-time offices in Washington, the west coast, the midwest, and the south;
• Activism by lobbying and submitting amicus briefs, as described above;
• Organizes prominent lay-person missions to government agencies;
• Appoints official spokesmen, such as Rabbi Avi Shafran, who respond to media articles and statements which concern the orthodox community; Rabbi Shafran also organizes AIA members to do the same;
• Conveys its positions in the Jewish media, particularly through privately-owned weekly Jewish newspapers in English called "HaModia", and "Yated Neeman" (distinct from the Israeli English-language newspaper carrying the same name), which convey news and views from the Agudah point of view.

Agudath Israel does not have its own website, since its official policy is for its members not to use the Web for uses other than work-related. However, its message, as relayed in the pages of its magazine, the Jewish Observer, is intermittently republished to the Web by a third party, the Shema Yisrael Torah Network. AIA does allow the use of e-mail, and uses it to disseminate information to its members.