by CJV | Feb 9, 2022 | Letters & Statements, Religious Liberty
View the formal letter in PDF. Dear Governor Lee, We write to request your strong defense of Public Chapter Number 514 of 2020, as passed by the Tennessee legislature and then signed by you, which acknowledges the right of religious organizations to act according to...
by CJV | Feb 8, 2022 | Coverage, Human Rights
by Royal Alexander, The Hayride Amnesty International (AI), which purportedly exists to fight against human rights violations, sharply disparaged Israel this week labeling Israel an “apartheid” state that should be scorned by the world. In its Feb. 1, 2022 report,...
by CJV | Feb 3, 2022 | Coverage, Human Rights
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents more than 2,000 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of American public policy, denounced a new Amnesty International report that paints Israel as an apartheid state, and charged the organization with being an...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Feb 3, 2022 | Coverage, Featured Coverage, Human Rights, Op-Eds
Published in Newsweek. ABC News has suspended Whoopi Goldberg from “The View” for two weeks because she made ignorant and insensitive remarks about the Holocaust. She said the Shoah was not about “race” and that she, as a Black person, sees the...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured Coverage, Human Rights, Op-Eds
Published in The New York Post It was wrong for Obama acolytes to denounce criticisms of the Obama presidency as “racist.” Yes, one of Barack Obama’s parents was black. But his policies were not “black.” They were just bad. Likewise, it is wrong to uniformly censure...
by CJV | Feb 1, 2022 | Press Releases, Human Rights
Responding to today’s Amnesty International report, “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity,” CJV Managing Director Rabbi Yaakov Menken issued the following statement on behalf of the...