Letters & Statements

This is a contextual translation of the statement of 250 rabbis regarding LGBT marches and surrogacy of same-gender couples which recently attracted media attention in Israel, and was the topic of our recent press release.

North American Federation leaders will have a special opportunity to engage in a dialogue with their Israeli counterparts. But perhaps instead of merely saying “We Need to Talk,” should not the Federations recognize that they still more urgently need to listen?

Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, Judaism clearly rejects termination of fetal life as a legitimate method of family planning. The proposed revisions will be a significant improvement over the current regulations in multiple ways, and we urge their adoption.

It is always risky to try to shoehorn one’s political or ideological agenda into the Bible’s narrative. For every proof in one direction, an opposing view can be elicited as well from the same Bible. Missing from Rabbi Berman’s article was one key word — “illegal.”

“I was asked politely by a Chabad shliach if I was interested in putting on tefillin, and I responded positively. This woman then appeared and began screeching and interfering. It is so unfortunate that Jews here are persecuted by the ‘leftist bohemian types.’ If I were a Muslim or Christian would this behavior be seen as legitimate?”

UPDATE: The Director of Strategic Communications at American University, Mark Story, reached out to us on behalf of the President to apologize for the erroneous web page listing, and to confirm that Ms. Peri has not taught at AU since 2015.

If the school is only going to commemorate those killed while trying to murder Jews, but not victims of terror attacks around the world, is the school honoring humanity, or barbarism?

Students at Columbia University, New York University, Syracuse University and University of California Irvine are deploying a repeated and deliberate strategy to create a hostile climate for Jewish and Zionist students and, in turn, suppress any and all pro-Israel expression on campus. The CJV joined 60 organizations demanding that the heads of these schools address this harassment and violation of civil rights.

Birth parents who desire to place their children for adoption should be able to choose an agency that shares their values. In particular, keeping kids first involves protecting the birth mother’s choice to place the child with the family she feels is best.