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Rabbi Menken on The Lars Larson Show: Is Ilhan Omar’s “Islamophobia” Legislation Just A Federally Sponsored Anti-Semitism?
Appearing on the Lars Larson show, CJV Managing Director Rabbi Yaakov Menken pointed out that unlike antisemitism, there is no consistent pattern to “Islamophobia.”
Rabbi Menken on The Lars Larson Show: Anti-Semitism at Duke
Rabbi Menken joins Lars Larson to discuss the anti-Semitic upheaval at Duke this past week.
Rabbi Menken on The Sam Malone Show: The Boebert vs. Omar Feud
Rabbi Menken joins Sam Malone to discuss this week’s feud between Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar, and CNN’s twisting of the narrative to call Boebert’s tasteless joke about Omar’s backhanded support for terror organizations “Islamophobic.”
Fox News: Rabbis condemn Duke student government’s ‘despicable double standard’ on ‘Jew-hatred’
“Animus against the Jewish People is a particularly subtle form of bigotry; it routinely hides behind a socially and academically acceptable façade,” the CJV letter warns.
Israel National News: Rabbinical org blasts Duke student gov for vetoing approval of campus pro-Israel club
Coalition for Jewish Values denounces decision as “unacceptable,” calls it a “double standard at play.”
CNS: Jewish Pro-Life Leaders to SCOTUS: Abortion is ‘Child Sacrifice,’ Must Overturn Roe v. Wade
In a legal brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Mississippi law case that could upend Roe v. Wade, Jewish pro-life leaders argue that abortion “violates all Jewish ethics and laws,” constitutes “child sacrifice,” and has created a “silent...
Rabbi Menken on EWTN: The Worsening Anti-Semitism in America
Rabbi Menken described the anti-Israel narrative fueling antisemitism’s escalation, painfully visible on U.S. campuses.
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.