Letters & Statements

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.

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.