by CJV | Jul 23, 2021 | Press Releases, Human Rights
Coalition for Jewish Values announced today that over 10,000 people have now pledged to boycott Ben & Jerry’s because of the company’s decision to engage in a boycott against Israeli territory. CJV President Rabbi Pesach Lerner issued the following statement:...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Jul 3, 2021 | Religious Liberty, Op-Eds
By Rabbi Yaakov Menken, TownHall As a young child, my grandfather fled Communist Russia in the back of a horse-drawn wagon, hiding underneath a pile of hay—which a Bolshevik border guard stabbed with a pitchfork to prevent such escapes from totalitarianism....
by CJV | Jun 17, 2021 | Press Releases, Family Values
Responding to the unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Fulton et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, made the following statement: This decision is a victory for religious freedom, for...
by CJV | Jun 17, 2021 | Press Releases, Human Rights
In a letter sent yesterday to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), more than 200 American rabbis from Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) demanded the immediate removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. They...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Jun 11, 2021 | Op-Eds, Human Rights
By Rabbi Dov Fischer, The American Spectator My readers know that I do not whine. When I write about anti-Semitism, I am not wringing my hands or asking to change school curricula to teach tolerance nor to complain about “systemic this” or “systemic that.” That is not...
by CJV | Jun 10, 2021 | Religious Liberty, Press Releases
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1,500 Orthodox rabbis, today commended Yeshiva University (YU) for courageously defending religious liberty in the face of a highly-publicized lawsuit filed by LGBTQ activists. YU has refused to grant official...
