Three years ago, Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and dragged 251 hostages into Gaza. They raped, burned and filmed themselves doing it. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, and the most thoroughly documented massacre in history, recorded by its own perpetrators.

Yet the world is already being taught to remember it as something else. Murderers become “militants,” then “the resistance.” Gaza, which Israel left completely in 2005, is called “occupied” and “blockaded.” And the effort to rescue hostages who were being tortured, starved and abused is slandered as “genocide.” Even Gaza photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who spread the genocide lie for years on American speaking tours, now admits that Hamas could have ended the war within days by accepting terms it agreed to two years later.

“The Torah commands, ‘Distance yourself from a false matter,’ and our Sages taught that ‘falsehood has no legs,’” said CJV President Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld. “Those who called it ‘genocide’ to work to free tortured and abused hostages and end the genocidal danger posed by Hamas are accomplices in the terrorists’ horrific crimes. No decent person learns moral judgment from murderers, rapists, and torturers.”

Israel has the right and responsibility to defeat those who threaten its citizens and to ensure that October 7 can never happen again. Leaders who condemn antisemitism must back their words by protecting Jewish communities, confronting intimidation and holding perpetrators accountable — and by backing the appropriate and moral efforts by Israeli leaders to bring Hamas and its vile barbarism to an end.

The Jewish community will continue to build, teach our children, and practice our faith openly and without fear. We pray for the safety of all who defend us at home and abroad, and for lasting peace. Our answer to October 7 is a stronger Jewish future, rooted in Torah, sustained by faith, and defended with resolve.

Photo: Damaged building in Kibbutz Be’eri after October 7 by Kobi Gideon, Israel Government Press Office, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I believe our community is now operating through four ideological policy camps: the Far Right and the Far Left, along with the Center Right and the Center Left. Employing the two central issues facing America’s Jews, Israel/Zionism and Antisemitism, I have constructed this evaluative model.

Labeling the numerous organizations and placing them into their respective spaces, based on their Zionist credentials and antisemitism alignment (identified with a specific definition), is of course problematic. Obviously, introducing other “policy items” will no doubt change the positioning of some of these institutions. I take responsibility for possibly mislabeling some of the 40 organizations that have been examined, with many more to be inputted. For purposes of this article, only some of the organizations included in this study are referenced.

Assigning an organization to an “Ideological Camp” applies only where an organization regularly takes public-policy positions in connection with these two overarching themes reflecting a particular stance or viewpoint. There are numerous organizations that can be defined as “Non-Combatants” meaning such groups can be identified as primarily operating in other “neutral” policy or content areas, such as religious, social service, philanthropic, educational, security or health, and only on occasion may address one or both of these issues.

Examples of Current Intra-Camp Coalescing:

Right: Republican Jewish Coalition functions as the partisan hub linking Jewish conservatives and Republican officeholders. ZOA has assembled pro-IHRA and campus-enforcement coalitions in defense of Israel, while CJV (Coalition for Jewish Values) connects Orthodox social conservatism with pro-Israel advocacy. Other organizations that are identified with this ideological sector include Betar US, Americans for a Safe Israel, Religious Zionists of America, and American Friends of Likud.

Read the full article at The Times of Israel

Photo: Members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations meet with President Reuven Rivlin by Zoom, May 2021, by Mark Neyman (Israel GPO), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A co-founder of the parental rights group Moms for Liberty is urging parents to look closely at the politics of Ms. Rachel, the children’s YouTube star known for early-learning songs and speech lessons.

Tina Descovich said in a Fox report that Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, is using her influence for political activism. Descovich said parents who trust the channel with toddlers should know that before they press play. She suggested each show open with a label noting that Ms. Rachel was a finalist in StopAntisemitism’s 2025 “Antisemite of the Year” contest. According to the report, the group accused her of promoting Hamas-aligned messaging in posts about Gaza, while other Jewish organizations have defended her advocacy for Palestinian children.

Her Gaza posts have drawn the sharpest criticism. The Coalition for Jewish Values’ Rabbi Yaakov Menken criticized the proportion of her attention that goes to Gaza compared with other humanitarian crises. Ms. Rachel has said the backlash no longer fazes her, per the same report.

Read the full article at The Washington Times

Photo: Rabbi Yaakov Menken, courtesy of Coalition for Jewish Values

Rabbi Steve Leder, a technical advisor behind Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This,” called out the series star Adam Brody on Tuesday for saying he believes Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza.

“Hi Adam, you might not remember me. My name is Rabbi Steve Leder, and I was the technical advisor for Season 1 of ‘Nobody Wants This,'” Leder began in an Instagram video to the actor.

“My job was to make sure that your character was authentic and that everything in Season 1 about Judaism was authentic.”

Leder criticized Brody and called his comments “ignorant,” arguing that Brody had mischaracterized the situation in Gaza and treated the issue flippantly.

“Your pronouncement the other day about a ‘genocide in Gaza’ was truly shocking,” Leder said. “Not only because of your misuse and mischaracterization of your use of the word genocide — there is no genocide in Gaza, there are genocides in other countries happening, but you failed to mention any of them.

“You, by your own admission, are a relatively ignorant Jew, and your ignorance really showed the other day.

“If you’re going to use a word like ‘genocide,’ you ought to know what it means,” he added. “And, by the way, being so flippant about a word like ‘genocide’ — ‘Hey, put me down for genocide,’ like you’re asking for a table for two at Craig’s — is disgusting. Here’s some more technical advice: If you know nothing about something, you should say nothing about it.”

Brody, who plays a rabbi in the series, recently suggested in an interview with GQ magazine that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza.

“Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody said. “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine. It’s awful that it’s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it’s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago. I’m hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Brody’s representatives for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

In a comment to Fox News Digital, Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, also called out Brody as “ignorant” for calling Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.”

“One of the hallmarks of antisemitism is to irrationally regard Jews as a threat. While Hamas was holding, torturing, raping and murdering hostages, only a bigot would call the effort to free those hostages ‘genocide.’ An ignorant Jew is no less likely than anyone else to fall prey to hateful indoctrination,” Menken said.

“As even photographer Motaz Azaiza now admits, Hamas could have ended the conflict in Gaza at any moment, simply by releasing the hostages,” he added. “In no genocide in history have the victims controlled the off switch. On roughly a daily basis, a prominent Jewish leftist goes on X (formerly Twitter) to say ‘As a Jew’ and then follow it by expressing antisemitic nonsense.”

In another comment from the Israeli-American Council, the organization expressed “revulsion at the ignorant and harmful statement” made by Brody.

“Lies like this are not just fake news, they incite violence that can lead to the murder of innocent Jews. Just today, Israeli passengers narrowly escaped death from what is being called an attempted terrorist attack on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. That’s the reality Israelis and Jews live with every day,” the organization said.

Photo: Adam Brody by Kevin Paul, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has joined a Senate resolution that would designate Sept. 27 through Oct. 3 as “Religious Education Week.”

Senate Resolution 891 was introduced Sept. 23 and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The resolution has not yet been adopted by the Senate.

The measure was introduced by U.S. Sen. Darline Graham of South Carolina and is backed by Tuberville and more than two dozen other senators, including Alabama Sen. Katie Britt.

The proposal is supported by School Time Bible Ministries, the Foundation for American Christian Education, Agudath Israel of America, the Association of Christian Schools International, the Coalition for Jewish Values and Catholic Education Partners, according to Tuberville’s office.

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Photo: Official Senate portrait of Sen. Tommy Tuberville, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons