Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in JNS: Turning the word ‘genocide’ against its creators
Rabbi Yaakov Menken: Efforts to redefine ‘genocide’ to indict Israel are projection, turning Hamas’s own genocidal intentions against Jews.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Israel National News: Gaza’s star witness just testified: There Was No Genocide
Gaza’s most celebrated photographer admits Hamas could have ended the war in October 2023 and chose not to… meaning there was no genocide.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Countering the Genocide Libel
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky argues Israel should stop rebutting the genocide libel with facts and instead counter its emotional, antisemitic logic directly.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Washington Examiner: Queen Esther saved her people. Michigan’s attorney general just threw them under the bus
Nessel went to the Bible in desperation, as she sought to defend the unconscionable as somehow moral.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Israel National News: Charlie Kirk stood with the Jewish People. We must stand for his legacy.
One year after his assassination, Rabbi Yaakov Menken reflects on Charlie Kirk’s steadfast advocacy and friendship to the Jewish people and Israel.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: The catalyst for Jew-hatred
Jew hatred was never American-born but imported, first by 20th-century European immigrants and now by radical Muslim immigration.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in JNS: An endorsement ends any ‘shomer’ myth
To Schumer, party cohesion and electoral math come first, while the character of the nominee takes a distant second.
Rabbi Pesach Lerner in Jerusalem Post: The Jewish Agency misstates Zionism’s founding principles
The Jewish Agency’s claim that “pluralistic Judaism” was a founding pillar of Zionism fails every test – historical, religious, and institutional.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: General Election
The three greatest strategic blunders in the history of Israel were made by renowned generals who were elected prime minister.
Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in St. Louis Jewish Light: America at 250: Jewish American or American Jew?
Rabbi Ze’ev Smason asks whether American Jews should see themselves as Jewish Americans or American Jews—and why that order matters.