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Here's one to start with, on Chabad.org. Key paragraphs: ...the dot [in an e-mail address] is not just a dot. It represents something. That dot has meaning far beyond the pixels on the screen that form it. To me it may seem insignificant, but that is simply due to my ignorance of the ways of the internet. All I know is that with the dot, ...

Russian Chabad.org I can read, but not understand, Russian, but right there on the home page there's a picture of two masks with a link that says "Пурим" (which transliterates to "Purim"). Also, JudaisminRussian.com (a division of Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE)). For print materials, I know Kehos has good outreach materials in Russian, ...

You may want to check with Shvut Ami, an organization that exists to do and enable outreach in the Russian community. They operate outreach centers in Israel as well as a publishing house that publishes and curates Russian translations of Jewish classics. I found one explicitly Purim-related offering in the publishing house: Megillat Esther - with ...

It appears that one of two things occurred when you wrote your question: either you are bothered or puzzled by the things kiruv organization do, or hopeful that they have some heter. I will say that the blanket heter that you are conceiving of does not exist. Though there can be found specific examples and certain "loopholes" to certain halakhic issues, the ...

The Gemara in Nida discusses what a person should do with his nails. The Gemara there says that "chossid sorfan" - that a pious person should burn them so that a pregnant woman wouldn't accidentally step on uncovered nails. Tosfos says that this is true despite the damage one receives for burning parts of one's body. Therefore, we see that one should be ...

The mitzvah of tochecha(rebuke) and vahavta l'reacha kamocha(loving ones friend) are intertwined and kiruv is a huge mitzvah and it is like saving a life. Rambam (Mitzvos Aseh 3),Minchas Chinuch (Mitzvah 239 Os 4) .The Gemara in Shevous 39 brings the idea from a passuk of areivus(responsible for a community)that not only one has to help individuals but also ...

I don't know Rabbi Jacobs, but much of what he says and suggests is clearly inspired by an organization within the Reform movement and I would guess that he is aiming his address, initially, at other like minded Reform temples, urging them to follow the lead of an affiliated group. But his message is clearly meant to resonate with other Jews and their ...

There is an Ohr haChaim by the mitzvah of hashavas aveidah which learns homiletically (al derech derush) that returning lost objects to one's friend is an allegory for returning lost Jews to Hashem. I am not sure how authoritative it is really as a halachic source though.

There really is NO heter to compromise on Halacha when doing Kiruv period. Howerver when dealing with non-frum people there is a lot of thought that goes in to dealing with them and their Halachic issues. For Example: lets say you have someone who lives far away from your Shul, and you know he is driving to Shul, you do not have to tell him not to drive ...

1) When we do Mitzvos for H', it is not because H' needs our mitzvos. It is because H' wants us to make a relationship with Him and He knows the best way for that to happen. On a person's 25th anniversary, would they rather a bouquet of roses or, a cake just like the one they ordered on their first date with flowers that are the same color of the tie he ...