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A newcomer to Jewish politics, the Coalition for Jewish Values, seized the moment of President Trump’s election almost exactly a year ago to start articulating some of the most conservative positions ever espoused by a Jewish group. At the core of its mission is a set of political and social values that are strikingly similar to those of many Christian evangelicals.

Yaakov Menken, director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said Phillips’ case is particularly important for Jews because so much their religious observance is based on their actions.

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, also spoke and declared that Phillips has just as much right to refuse to create a cake for a ceremony that he feels violates his religious beliefs as Jews do to refuse to eat non-kosher food.

Yaakov Menken, director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said the wedding-cake case is particularly relevant for Jews because so much their religious observance involves behaviors and actions. “And we Jews have seen this before. We have long, bitter, deadly experience with governments trying to force us to follow earlier versions of political correctness.”

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, was upbeat after the hearing. “I was impressed that FEMA’s attorney didn’t try to defend the policy,” he said.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, issued a statement.

Coalition for Jewish Values demands Association of Reform Zionists of America disavow comparison between Israelis, Orthodox to segregation.

Four U.S. Orthodox organizations have strongly criticized a Reform Zionist official’s comparison of the Western Wall prayer controversy to the African-American civil rights struggle.

Rabbi Dov Fischer of Orange County, California added: “The government should not be forcing those whose religious beliefs oppose dispensing contraceptives to violate their consciences.”

US Orthodox rabbis, OU, praise Trump Administration directives to protect religious rights and rights of unborn children able to feel pain.