Letters & Statements

As violent conflict in the Middle East is spilling over into vicious attacks on Jews worldwide, including in California, we believe a bill that facilitates the widespread adoption of an overtly antisemitic curriculum directly threatens the safety and well-being of Jewish students and the Jewish community.

Judaism has a strong legal tradition of protecting human life and prohibiting the murder of innocents.

The more than 1,500 rabbis in America and beyond who make up CJV commend you for standing firmly for Torah standards and the preservation of our Mesorah—for your refusal to bow to undue pressure from those with differing ideological agendas.

Title IX’s religious exemption is constitutionally required whenever a student at a religious college or university challenges that institution’s decision to discipline
the student for violating its standards on sexuality or gender.

Rep. Omar’s unfounded assertion that Israel committed “unthinkable atrocities” is grounded in the blood libel and the calumny that Jews poisoned wells during the Black Death. Throughout the generations, rivers of blood have been shed by mobs motivated by the incendiary myth of the murderous Jew.

For the sake of our schools, AFT and its affiliates should end its support for racist ideologies like BDS. It should get back to its true calling: educating our children.

Mr. Bobb’s assertions are viciously antisemitic—they are the direct and sinister descendants of the blood libel and myths of well poisoning during the Black Plague.

There is compelling evidence to suggest that the antisemitic first draft of the ESMC — or an even more extreme version of it — will likely be adopted and implemented by many if not most school districts in the state if AB 101 becomes law.

That J Street accuses Mr. Klein while simultaneously honoring Mr. Abbas reflects an antisemitic double-standard of the first order

We at the CJV view this directive as an attack on the free exercise of religion based upon our Jewish Biblical beliefs, adhered to by many other traditional religious groups, your fine college certainly included.