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 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...
by CJV | Apr 26, 2021 | Press Releases, Religious Liberty
In a unanimous agreement reached Sunday evening, the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) changed its Convention rules to enable early voting for observant Jews and Seventh-day Adventists. The committee had failed to pass a related...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Apr 14, 2021 | Op-Eds, Headlines, Religious Liberty
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken in The Federalist If it weren’t clear before, it is now nakedly obvious the far left aims to silence all who question or disagree. It perversely misuses terms like “diversity” and “tolerance” for precisely the opposite ends — to enforce its...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Apr 5, 2021 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News Is it time to take a stand? A British Court ruled last week against an actress who was fired from the production in which she appeared because the lexical archeologists found a comment from her Facebook page several...