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CNS News: Dec. 1: National Day of Repentance as SCOTUS Hears Challenge to MS Pro-Life Law
In a brief submitted to the high court, the Coalition for Jewish Values, the Jewish Pro-Life Foundation, and several rabbis said, “The history of Judaism includes many existential threats to Jewish life in the form of state sponsored mass murder. This makes us especially sensitive to the plight of children in the womb…”
CNSNews: Rabbis Blast Biden Abstention on ‘Anti-Semitic UN Resolution’
CJV sharply criticized the Biden administration for declining to vote on a U.N. resolution that grants Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes in territory captured by Israel in the 1948 Palestine War and the 1967 Six-Day War.
Jewish News Syndicate: 1,500-plus rabbis rebuke US for abstention vote on UN resolution targeting Israel
The [Biden] administration abstained on an issue of hate and bigotry, said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. This is not moral leadership.
Fox News: Biden ditches Trump’s pro-Israel stance on Palestinian ‘right to return’
The Coalition for Jewish Values, an organization that represents 1,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis, condemned the Biden administration’s move.
Baltimore Jewish Times: Jewish Republicans hold webinar on race relations
They basically claim that the color of your skin is the sole determinant of whether you are personally persecuted or privileged, and we know from history that that’s nonsensical, Menken said.
Rabbi Menken on Foxnews.com: Virginia candidate Youngkin’s criticism of Soros not anti-Semitic, it’s legitimate
Response to Glenn Youngkin’s comment on George Soros was as fast and furious as it was predictable.
Rabbi Menken on The John Fredericks Show: George Soros’ Vision for a Communist America
Soros uses his wealth to move America away from traditional (Jewish) values. Pointing that out isn’t Anti-Semitic.
The Hill: Youngkin under fire for invoking George Soros in school board debate
Youngkin’s campaign pointed to a number of Jewish voices who have defended Youngkin’s remarks, including Rabbi Yaakov Menken.
Fox News: Glenn Youngkin, Jewish leader dismiss Dem’s ‘ridiculous’ claim that criticizing Soros is ‘antisemitic’
An Orthodox Jewish rabbi shot down her claim. “It is ridiculous to say that because Soros is a wealthy Jew, if you criticize him, you’re going after Jewish money,” Menken told Fox News.
The Washington Examiner: Pence and GOP lawmakers ask SCOTUS to back coach fired for prayer
Signatories of the Advancing American Freedom brief included Young America’s Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom, Coalition for Jewish Values, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Seema Verma, the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.