by CJV | Feb 16, 2024 | Updates, Featured Coverage, Missouri
On Tuesday, February 13th, the Coalition for Jewish Values held its first-ever Washington, D.C. Advocacy Day. Under the leadership of CJV Managing Director Rabbi Yaakov Menken, a select group of rabbis, students, and lay leaders from eight states brought CJV advocacy...
by CJV | Feb 6, 2024 | Missouri, Coverage
by Bill Motchan in the St. Louis Jewish Light A Missouri House of Representatives committee on Feb. 6 held a hearing on a pro-Israel resolution. Nearly 120 supporters of the resolution attended the hearing, including 100 students from Epstein Hebrew Academy and Torah...
by Rabbi Ze'ev Smason | Jan 29, 2024 | Coverage, Missouri
by Rabbi Ze’ev Smason and Rabbi Yonason Goldson in the St. Louis Jewish Light No doubt, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen believed sincerely in their own good intentions when they passed their resolution last week calling on President Joe Biden to work toward a...
by CJV | Jan 25, 2024 | Missouri, Updates
When a noxious letter appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light, castigating Jewish communal leaders for not sharing false and antisemitic narratives about Israel, the leadership of CJV Missouri refused to stand idle. The result was an outstanding rebuke to the...
by Rabbi Ze'ev Smason | Jan 10, 2024 | Missouri, Family Values, Op-Eds
by Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light When the renowned Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky lived in Toronto in the 1940s, his synagogue presented him with a silver platter as a present for Purim. A few days later, one of the shul members saw Rav Kamenetsky in...
by Rabbi Ze'ev Smason | Nov 9, 2023 | Op-Eds, Missouri
by Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light Our Israeli brothers and sisters are under attack. So many lives have been taken. Families are bereft. So many are suffering the horrors of captivity. The depth of the evil perpetrators is unthinkable. In the...
