One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Sep 14, 2017 | Op-Eds

Clevelend Plain Dealer: Mandel’s criticism was accurate

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Aug 17, 2017 | Op-Eds

Published in Cleveland Plain Dealer (letter to the editor) Writer Brent Larkin (“For Josh Mandel, no gutter is too deep, no shot too cheap”, Aug 3) faced this choice: address the facts, or write a partisan hit piece. He chose the partisan hit piece. For...

President Trump Was Right the First Time

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Aug 16, 2017 | Op-Eds

Orthodox Jewish Perceptions of Evangelical Christians

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Aug 9, 2017 | Letters & Statements

Correcting the Record In early 2017, the Pew Research Center issued a report which implied a one-sided affinity between Evangelical Christians and the Jewish community. As described in the Washington Post, the report determined that “white evangelicals rate Jews more...

There is no Israeli ‘Blacklist’ of Rabbis

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Jul 21, 2017 | Op-Eds

Published in The Washington Post (letter to the editor) Regarding Gil Steinlauf’s July 16 Outlook essay, “I’m an American rabbi. Israel rejects my religious authority”: The false report of an Israeli “blacklist” of rabbis was...