by CJV | Feb 12, 2018 | Press Releases
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) expressed pain and offense at comments by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) which targeted the Orthodox Jewish community, calling his remarks “a nasty swipe against other Jews, bordering on bigotry.” In a...
by CJV | Jan 30, 2018 | Press Releases
Credit the Vice President’s “Outstanding Friendship” A prominent Rabbinic group has stepped forward to defend Vice President Mike Pence following his Holocaust Memorial Day missive on Twitter. In his message, the Vice President described Jews as a...
by CJV | Jan 22, 2018 | Press Releases
Responding to the remarks by Vice President Mike Pence to a Special Session of the Knesset, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Eastern Regional Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, made the following statement: “Vice-President Pence beautifully articulated...
by CJV | Jan 18, 2018 | Press Releases
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, today announced a petition drive to preserve traditional standards for prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and to prevent changes at the Holy Site for political...
by CJV | Dec 22, 2017 | Press Releases
The Coalition for Jewish Values today sharply criticized the Trump Administration for re-nominating Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Feldblum, a Democrat and LGBT activist, cast the deciding vote when the EEOC termed it “unlawful sex...
by CJV | Dec 20, 2017 | Press Releases
Responding to news that President Donald Trump had commuted the sentence of Shalom Rubashkin, former head of the Agriprocessors Kosher Meat plant in Postville, IA, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said: “This was an extremely...