Letters & Statements

Halacha is not ours to modify, but to follow. No lobbying efforts can change that reality. Neither can Knesset legislation.

It’s crucial to understand that although an academic boycott of Israel targets Israeli universities and scholars, its implementation on US campuses such as Virginia Tech can’t help but violate the academic and civil rights of undergraduate students.

Coach Kennedy was terminated because he prayed alone and silently for less than a minute, on school property. If this interpretation of the Establishment Clause were allowed to stand, an Orthodox Jewish teacher could be fired for praying the afternoon service, a daily obligation, in an empty classroom.

CJV joined with seven other national Jewish organizations to ask the Sixth Court of Appeals to protect worshippers from antisemitic harassment.

Alarmingly, there is compelling evidence to suggest that the antisemitic first draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum – or more likely, the more extreme “Liberated” version of it – will be adopted and implemented by many if not most school districts in the state if AB 101 becomes law.

Allowing diverse faiths to be represented by chaplains provides access to those who are not of the majority faith and thus less likely to be represented by elected officials.

Judicial inquiry into ministerial status, focused on concepts such as ordination, disadvantages minority religions and poses a threat to their autonomy.